# Would it be wrong to have a stripper perform at my funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802 "2011-04-18T05:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/1 "2011-04-18T05:18:51Z")
Because I found [the perfect song.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9kKo8LCbcM) The Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s version of _Just a Closer Walk with Thee_. She should be ‘plump’, if you know what I mean. Would you be offended by this? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/2 "2011-04-18T06:32:00Z")
Never having given it a thought in the past – yes, I think I would be offended, and I’m kind of surprised by my own answer. But I have a different circle of friends and family than you do. If you think YOUR people won’t be offended, or will be amused, well, do it. Remember that people will probably be bringing their kids along. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/3 "2011-04-18T07:01:51Z")
Stripper at a funeral? Eh, typical Occidental lack of imagination. Now if you’ll talk about strippers for a funeral [dancing on a parade float](http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1350737177/), you might have some hope of catching up with Taiwan. “Taiwan: the Vanguard of Tackiness, est. 1945.” ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/4 "2011-04-18T09:00:14Z")
I personally would be laughing my ass off thinking it was one of the greatest things I had seen in a while, but then I always appreciate individual expression and I strongly believe that we should each be allowed to approach death in our own way, whatever that is. I can’t imagine anyone else I know not being offended by it though. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/5 "2011-04-18T11:02:20Z")
I want some kind of tradition established that beautiful women should flash their breasts at my gravestone. Not sure how to get the ball rolling, but I respect your plans! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/6 "2011-04-18T11:47:40Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Stripper at a funeral? Eh, typical Occidental lack of imagination. Now if you’ll talk about strippers for a funeral [dancing on a parade float](http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1350737177/), you might have some hope of catching up with Taiwan. “Taiwan: the Vanguard of Tackiness, est. 1945.” Hm. I’m not gonna get that unless I outlive my wife. Better start eating right. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/7 "2011-04-18T11:55:36Z")
Bystander: “I guess the stiff wanted to be stiff one more time.” ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/8 "2011-04-18T12:07:39Z")
I went to a memorial with belly dancers once. But as it was a celebration of the woman’s life, and she had planned it (terminal cancer) I certainly wasn’t going say it was wrong. It was definitely weird. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/9 "2011-04-18T13:39:07Z")
I plan to have a “destination” funeral, so I’m going to be obliged to provide _some_ sort of entertainment for my guests. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/10 "2011-04-18T13:49:25Z")
“At”? Fine ----- and I would love an invitation if I happen to outlive you. I’ve seen jugglers, stilt-walkers and I knew a clown once who was buried as his clown persona. But a stripper could be very cool given the right Pastor/leader. “Use the casket as a prop”? That would be a little much. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/11 "2011-04-18T14:31:26Z")
At that point why do you care if you offend someone? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/12 "2011-04-18T14:41:40Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Bystander: “I guess the stiff wanted to be stiff one more time.” Mortis would be de rigueur. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/13 "2011-04-18T15:13:02Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > I want some kind of tradition established that beautiful women should flash their breasts at my gravestone. Not sure how to get the ball rolling, but I respect your plans! I think the first step is planning the right epitaph on the stone. Something about getting luck the fact that they will gain luck thereby. Maybe have a little stand with pamphlets. Have it read like a chain letter. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/14 "2011-04-18T15:16:16Z")
Go for it. Tell anyone who complains that your other choice was to get a glass-topped coffin and to pay a couple of porn stars to have lesbian sex on top of it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/15 "2011-04-18T15:57:03Z")
Moonlitheral, you have a point. But I can see contracting and paying for such, only to have the artist being told to go away and then I don’t get what I paid for. I can imagine the discomfort of my male friends, sitting next to their wives. She probably wouldn’t go full nude. Pasties/G string (black of course) But I think her using my closed coffin would be a must. Probably an urn actually. ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Bundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/16 "2011-04-18T20:19:11Z")
Once you are dead, what does it matter? I think a plump stripper is wrong. And I think waiting until you are dead is wrong on another level. I’ve never been a big fan of “watching” things go down. I want to participate. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/17 "2011-04-18T20:27:42Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Bystander: “I guess the stiff wanted to be stiff one more time.” [QUOTE=lieu] Mortis would be de rigueur. [/QUOTE] Just another example of why I love this board. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/18 "2011-04-18T21:22:51Z")
Funerals are not conducted for the benefit of the deceased. That guy’s dead. They’re performed to give the bereaved a chance to mourn in company, and derive comfort from that. Do you think the majority of the persons at your funeral will find comfort in your plan? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/19 "2011-04-18T22:22:21Z")
My wife, and my friend’s wife, shot down a plan my friend and I had to form a tontine-like plan - that we will each other our skulls for making into a ceremonial drinking-cup (obviously, the “winner” gets to make a cup out of the skull of the guy who dies first). We drafted up and signed mutual wills to that effect, but our wives made us tear them up. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/20 "2011-04-18T23:25:16Z")
Wrong to have a stripper at a funeral? Depends on the religion, if any, of the participants, I guess. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802.md?page=2)