# 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:** 2
**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, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/21 "2011-04-18T23:38:09Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > 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. ☹ On the plus side, a stripper funeral now looks reasonable and tame. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/22 "2011-04-18T23:40:48Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > 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. ☹ You could [leave it to a theatrical company for use in productions of _Hamlet_](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7749962.stm). ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/23 "2011-04-18T23:42:15Z")
To the OP: A stripper at your funeral would be a great set up for you pop out of your casket yelling “[Gotcha ya!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=80870&highlight=funeral+gotcha)” ---
**Author:** ![Pops1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Pops1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pops1963)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/24 "2011-04-19T01:02:58Z")
Most definitely not but the song should be Motorhead’s Killed by Death.(I want this song played at my funeral.) ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/25 "2011-04-19T03:47:42Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > 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? For certain individuals I have known, I think having a stripper at their funeral actually would be comforting to the mourners because it would be symbolic of how the deceased lived their life. Some of the best funerals (if such a term can be applied) I have attended have involved people telling their most heinous, but in retrospect funny stories of the deceased while steadily drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/26 "2011-04-19T14:11:23Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > You could [leave it to a theatrical company for use in productions of _Hamlet_](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7749962.stm). Heh, that’s great! 😃 But no - my wife objected to the whole “removal of skull” part. So no skull donations for me, if I predecease her. ---
**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 19, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/27 "2011-04-19T14:22:53Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > For certain individuals I have known, I think having a stripper at their funeral actually would be comforting to the mourners because it would be symbolic of how the deceased lived their life. Some of the best funerals (if such a term can be applied) I have attended have involved people telling their most heinous, but in retrospect funny stories of the deceased while steadily drinking. I try hard to avoid asking rhetorical questions. When I wrote _Do you think most persons at your funeral will be comforited by this plan_, I was making an inquiry, not a statement. If I die in the next few years, I’m sure my funeral will not be something I’d overall approve of; my wife and sisters would want a religious service, which is vexing and borderline offensive to me. But since I’ll be dead & non-existent, the point is to comfort _them_. I still insist on being cremated though. Or fed to sharks. ---
**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 19, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/28 "2011-04-19T14:25:14Z")
New there’s an interesting funeral – held at feeding time next to a shark tank. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/29 "2011-04-19T14:30:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I try hard to avoid asking rhetorical questions. When I wrote _Do you think most persons at your funeral will be comforited by this plan_, I was making an inquiry, not a statement. And she was responding to your inquiry… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/30 "2011-04-19T14:44:46Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > On the plus side, a stripper funeral now looks reasonable and tame. Hey, a drinking-cup made out of a skull is decorative, useful _and_ has a rich history! 😉 I even drafted up a will to cover this, which I still have around on the system somewhere … ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/31 "2011-04-19T16:37:28Z")
If I were to die today… I don’t think my funeral would be heavily attended. Although I agree that I would be ‘dead and gone’, I do think a funeral of my planning could still benefit myself in that my funeral is not a platform for others to spout their beliefs or spread their propaganda. \*\*Did you listen to the song? \*\* (a secondary point of this thread) That is a plump stripper song. Think Christina Hendricks. None of this stripper pole crap! Tassels baby! If the kids are old enough to face death, they are old enough to face sex. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/32 "2011-04-19T17:24:26Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I still insist on being cremated though. Or fed to sharks. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > New there’s an interesting funeral – held at feeding time next to a shark tank. At that point, you might as well have them play _Mack the Knife_. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/33 "2011-04-19T17:35:31Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > 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. :eek: Ooohh.I wonder if I could slip that into my will without the wife noticing. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/34 "2011-04-19T18:58:59Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Heh, that’s great! 😃 > > But no - my wife objected to the whole “removal of skull” part. So no skull donations for me, if I predecease her. This extremely rare NON-DIRTY episode of Oglaf points out the problem: [http://www.oglaf.com/skulls/](http://www.oglaf.com/skulls/) (Spoilered anyway) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/35 "2011-04-19T19:19:03Z")
> [@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.” The prequel to this, stripping at funerals, was the subject of a 1983 Taiwanese movie called 台上台下。 It’s been a popular practice for at least decades in Taiwan. Although in my experience the stripping was down to a bikini rather than a birthday suit. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/36 "2011-04-19T19:27:17Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > This extremely rare NON-DIRTY episode of Oglaf points out the problem: > > [http://www.oglaf.com/skulls/](http://www.oglaf.com/skulls/) > > (Spoilered anyway) Turn the skull over, it works just fine. 😃 [Actually, the plan was to set the skull into a silver mounting. It would have been _awesome_] ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/37 "2011-04-20T15:00:54Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > “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. Most horrifying wake ever! ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/38 "2011-04-20T15:17:08Z")
[I don’t know about a stripper, but I want this guy to sing at my funeral.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV40iCof99A&feature=related) ---
**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 20, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/39 "2011-04-20T15:26:32Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Most horrifying wake ever! It was the shoes that put it over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802/40 "2011-04-20T16:00:04Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Although in my experience the stripping was down to a bikini rather than a birthday suit. Well, you were just shy, that’s all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-be-wrong-to-have-a-stripper-perform-at-my-funeral/578802.md?page=3)