… you find jokes about death offensive!
This is a true story.
As you know, it has become very common to put into a loved one’s coffin some of the things that meant most to him or her in this life, or that people associate most with them. So photographs, jewellery, teddy bears, flowers – these have all become quite common.
There was once a widow, whose husband had worn a toupee. Without telling anyone, she put into the coffin two cans of the spray adhesive that her husband had used as a paste to fix his toupee.
Unfortunately, she had not read the small print on the can, which tells you not to put the canister in a hot place.
At the crematorium the coffin went into the furnace. At which point there was an explosion, which bent the furnace door…
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(Told to Nigel Barley (an anthropologist)by a crematorium official (‘Grave Matters’, pub by New York Holt 1997)).
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Oh…I laughed out loud!!!! I was at a funeral a few months back and as the coffin was being lowered we all heard a mobile ring, it was in the coffin….we nearly died!!!!xxxxx
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8| No way ………. really ????????????/ How did that happen … or was it someone’s idea of a joke???????????????????
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We all just stood there really spooked, his wife had put his mobile in the coffin with him just in case????? when it rang we all jumped six foot, nobody knew who was ringing it, even the priest seemed spooked!xxxxx
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Megacrumpetinos!!!! 8| Thank goodness that didn’t happen when I was doing a funeral … I think I might just have laughed 😳
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:)) How LUDICROUS!!! :)) but also how awful…. to have an explosion like that at such a time! 88| Dearie me…. I never even knew you had to glue hairpieces on but I suppose they would have to be fixed somehow….8| :))
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You learn something every day 😉
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Funny thing to put into a coffin glue i wouldnt think he cared much for that it was just a necersary part of the silly hair piece. Sounds unbelievable. lol.xx
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Some people are very sentimental and put in what most sums up their loved one, I think.
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I would hope that in any afterlife you would be at your physical best – slim with a full head of hair in its original colour.
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That view seems to be backed up by anecdotal evidence!
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What happened to the toupee ? very funny
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Must have been blown to smithereens 😉
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It sounds like the poor lady had a devout belief in the after-life. It was fortunate that some of the mourners did not cross the Styx prematurely.
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Indeed! People’s beliefs in the afterlife can be very interesting …
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And hell and brimstone too!
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:no: who knows?? 😉
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The USA method must be more lax than here in UK as we had to give the Funeral director the items we wanted included
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Yes, I thought that too!
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Oh, poor dead! Exploded to ashes!
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And what a shock for the mourners!
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Bet that was a shock to the mourners :))
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:yes: To everyone, I would think – bet the crem was pleased – there must have been quite a bill for a new door!!!
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Oh.God.. how could you?
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:??:
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Not a good idea !! :))
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Not clever at all 😉
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I couldn’t help but giggle :))
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Me too – I can just imagine how the clergy person must have felt :))
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:DD :DD :DD is it okay to laugh?
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I did!!! :))
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I do find that amusing…….
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So do I, Janet :))
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Dangerous…to say the least….:roll: xx
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It wouldn’t happen here now … unless someone sneaked something into the coffin without the undertakers knowing 🙄 :)) :no:
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