Organise youre own funeral?

what kind of funeral do you want?

do you want it with disco lights?

what kind of flowers?

do you want a color coding for your funeral? ex. only people in red can go to my funeral.

where?

what kind of music should be played rnb, pop, rock, j-pop?
Organise youre own funeral?
Death is a passing. Considering death as a graduation from this life, for me it will be a celebration. Just one or two nights wake. I prefer my coffin sealed. A photo gallery will be set up showcasing my photos from birth to the last pics taken of me. A video wall will also be showing more photos; the tv shows, stageplays, videos and movies I'd been in; and, just before cremation, my pre-recorded valedictory address and last will and testament.



There will be an open bar and a buffet will be laid out, too. Piped in music featuring my favorite songs will played. On the way to Mt. Pulag, Enya and Gregorian Masters of Chant selections and Elton John's Funeral for a Friend will be drifting in the air and as my ashes will be scattered, Ang Grupong Pendong's Prelude To A New Morning will put me to my final rest.



Flowers are for the living, not for the dead. But, I won't mind white roses, tulips and calla lillies.



Dress code will be "come as you are."
Reply:funeral? i don't need to worry about that. i will never die haha. i will be the first to discover immortality :-)
Reply:i want the people whom i've left to suffer. bwahaahhha!!!

i want them to wear an orange shirt with the letter P on it. =p

they should play the "ako ay pilipino" and "lupang hinirang".

flowers? makahiya will do. =)
Reply:Flowers----Carnations

Music-------Rock 60's/70's

Open to all

Again you are too young to be thinking like this.
Reply:your question is making my eyes sweat profusely, what's up your mind,kid?

anyway,in the Muslim way, our deads are bath by pouring over it with clean water 3 X ,then wrapped in clean white cloth, and buried without coffins in a dug niche under the ground. It would be a waste to cut trees or use other materials for coffins or burn fuels for the dead. What's money for even if it's quite expensive in the metropolis, buy expensive cellphones or have big houses but the hearts of family members are aloft from each other? the lots are lot cheaper outside the city. Even royalties are buried this way, whatever amount they have in their bank accounts.

though it's our religious custom, anyone outside the belief can ignore it or adopt this practical means.

but to those martyrs who died for the cause of God and justice, they are buried in the clothes they wore for they will have special places in paradise. This martyrs are not composed of soldiers only, but include housewives, husbands,teachers, or any ordinary person who died fighting for justice, for their honor, for protecting the oppressed or other causes for God.

it is to be conducted as simple as possible, burial time should not be delayed as the delaying of the judgment for that soul's reward or punishment is tantamount to committing sin by those who are left,
Reply:Pao, so morbid...



IF I have my own way I'd have daisies of all colors but with dominant pinks and purples and rock music playing along. =)
Reply:I have no specifications in mind. I just want to see lots of people in my funeral paying their last respects - kinda like their way of saying "Thank you, Inday, for being a fellow traveller in my life's journey."



and this one is for you, Pao ---



When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad songs for me;

Plant thou no roses at my head,

Nor shady cypress tree:

Be the green grass above me

With showers and dewdrops wet;

And if thou wilt, remember,

And if thou wilt, forget.



I shall not see the shadows,

I shall not feel the rain;

I shall not hear the nightingale

Sing on, as if in pain:

And dreaming through the twilight

That doth not rise nor set,

Haply I may remember,

And haply may forget.



----a poem by Christina Rossetti
Reply:i want everyone to wear white with pink ribbon on their chest.



i want all white and red flowers, and i want jazz music to be played and a little rnb.
Reply:i want a potluck in the afternoon. then square-dancing. then play pin the tail on the dead person and have a contest on how far a living person can throw a dead person. then by 5 pm, i'd want everyone to leave me alone in peace...forever!
Reply:jehovah we don't belive this
Reply:I wouldn't want a morbid funeral. I'd want one that would be more like a slumber party or a post rock concert. I would still like to see the people in black though, because I myself always wear clothes of that color.

I'd like to have azaleas and roses hanging around, and servers with platters of apples instead of just bread and coffee. I want bright lights, I see no point in dim lights during "lamays". And I'd want my family to play rock songs and some pop, basically all the CDs in my collection. None of the sad, memory lane type of songs, I personally hate them.

By the way Pao, why all the death-related questions? ;)
Reply:ok...just answered your coffin question...why the hang up on death and dying???



Ok... only happy people at mine please...celebration of life not a painful experience for all who attend
Reply:I'll be cremated, but want a service w/my pix on a stand remembering me; yes i would like some wild dance music while the service is going and my fave flowers are carnations...No color coding though, it doesn't matter where as long as they can accomodate enough people in a hall; i love fast and dance songs
Reply:Lot's of friends and relatives talking about what a great guy I was while munching on potato chips and gurgling down kool-aid. Then they'd play whatever was on my iPod as the soundtrack to my life.
Reply:I just hope that I will be buried next to my mother. There may not be anybody left to bury me in my family. I actually have a burial plot next to my mother's grave.