It’s like I always say: if you want people to be sad when you die, you have to earn that. Some people waste the opportunity to be a worthwhile person, but they ultimately chose to. When my aunt’s worthless deadbeat junkie ex-husband finally drops dead, I’m sure our family will throw a kickass party to celebrate.
You can stuff a turd into any Mother’s Day card… who cares what it says inside? Two minutes tops.
A friend of mine used to be a funeral director. From stories that she told me it was no rare event to have some family member get up at a funeral and vent their spleen at the “dear” departed. Some of them sounded like roasts without the good will.
It’s too bad they couldn’t tell their mother how they felt when she was alive. My mother knows EXACTLY how I feel about her…complete indifference. When she finally kicks it, I’ll probably just shrug and get on with my day.
I’ve said it before…the best legacy we can leave is people who will miss us when we’re gone.
I always say if you want people to be sad when you die, you’re a self-centered asshole. That’s just me, though. I kind of like the fact that our COO requested the final song played at her memorial be “Happy Trails” I hope that my family celebrates my life when I die, and save the tears for more important things.
Wasn’t there a sit-com episode where one of the main characters was asked to give the eulogy for someone they barely knew and what they did know of them they did not like?
Then at the funeral they opened up the floor to comments from those attending and everyone said what a bum the deceased was.
By “sad” I meant “not happy,” and I think that was quite obvious. Worthwhile people don’t wish a bunch of sadness on their loved ones.
Newsradio had one where Dave Foley’s character gets roped into giving a eulogy for a coworker he barely knew.
I made my kids promise to have that song at my funeral.
I remember an episode of *Designing Women * where Mary Jo had to read aloud the deceased’s final words to her husband and it turned out the late wife was accusing the husband of everything from indifference to infidelity.
Oh I remember that one. Poor Mary Jo was so mortified.
Was it Drew Carey that went to his HS teacher’s funeral? She gave him some “special attention”, which was his first time, and it was very special to him. As it turns out, whole bunch of other guys showed up at the funeral for the exact same reason.
Man I dream of an Obit that good for me.
I remember an episode of Frasier where he was chosen to give the eulogy for an great-aunt who hated him, it’s just that she hated him less than the others. He spent the episode agonizing over what exactly he was going to say at her funeral.
I’m reminded now of Louis DePalma asking Rev. Jim to give the eulogy for his Ma, when the time comes. After hearing him eulogize a racehorse.
“You won’t even need to change the words that much.”
Death is a comic gold mine.
I wish obits were more honest like that.
- adds it to my obit collection*
Just remember additional postage for the turd.
That just makes me want to hear them even more.
That is a decent description of a large number of Frasier episodes. He spent the episode agonizing over what exactly he was going to…[fill in the blank]
Frasier was the Hamlet of sitcoms.
How many scents would that come to?