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penguin
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What do you want to see in your obituary? Realistically
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I will be safe in the arms of Jesus by then.
But that's what most conservative will probably tell you, most liberal will probably tell you how they want their less than average Life sensationalized
It will most likely be written by my parents...
Something no parents should ever have to do...
Maybe that I tried my best to win this fight - and spent my surplus time and energy trying to help others who were similarly afflicted...
I have tried to be a good man - a good neighbor - a good citizen - a good boyfriend - to have a positive impact on those around me...
I wish I could do more - could have done more but the chemotherapy severely limits what I can do now...
Mike
There's great grandpa and great grandma Bowers that's no longer with us, grandpa and grandma Monday are dead, uncle Tommy and aunt Mary have died, uncle Artie and aunt Sammie are dead and my Dad has passed. That just leaves me and my elderly Mom from those happy days.
I call Mom on the phone every day and I dread the day she doesn't answer. [:(]
I just like the idea of having a FAVORITE cannon! [:I]
lots of family and friends telling and sharing stories of the departed one . better than any news paper add I could think of
even most funeral's the loved ones had been cremated ( least expensive way ) but to me was very nice way to be remembered
along the same lines but more intense
as a kid I remember having wakes in Tennessee they would bring the casket (and person of course ) back to the home place leave them that day and overnight next day come and take them to the grave yard
for a little kid it was odd ( I had to sleep about 6 feet away on a couch from my grandfather .. ) family and friends would bring in food and beverages and share time and stories
"It should be a sobering thought to realize the size of the turnout for your funeral will be governed by the weather that day,"
One for my father, one for my FIL, and one for my MIL.
Never have felt more inadequate in my whole life for a job that nobody else wanted or would do![:(]
Something I will never see. Hope its a doozy...
No obit---told them to "Hoffa" me and keep cashing the pension check.
Damn! That same thought has occurred to me a time or two!
Heard the Home Depot is having a sale on cement this week![}:)][:D]
Friend had a small framed sign in his office.
"It should be a sobering thought to realize the size of the turnout for your funeral will be governed by the weather that day,"
I am on the Color Guard Funeral Detail for our military veterans.
Last year I attended 29 funerals. I have attended 3 so far this year, but one of those was for a classmate's mother. (I mention that because lately I have not been going to funerals for anyone other than veterans. It is not that I don't do funerals. It is just that I haven't needed to go to any funerals lately - other than veterans. Yes, 8 out of 10 times I actually knew the veteran.)
Anyway, I attend funerals - and do the things I have to do, when the temperature is 20 degrees below zero or 100 degrees; when it is snowing, raining, "sunning" (hot), or just a beautiful day.
Sometimes there are more people in the Funeral Detail than there are attending the services. That is really sad - and I am always honored to be in attendance regardless of the weather.
Your friend's sign is correct - by my observation. I will steal it and make sure the others guys on the Funeral Detail see it. They will get a kick out of it, because when you do the things we do, it helps to have a sense of humor.
I lived , I died, thank you my friends for the ride, now I will be quick fried. The end
She just flat-out told me that I had absolutely no say in it since I would be dead.
I did get her to agree that there would be absolutely, under NO circumstances, ANY military cow cookies involved.
quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
Friend had a small framed sign in his office.
"It should be a sobering thought to realize the size of the turnout for your funeral will be governed by the weather that day,"
I am on the Color Guard Funeral Detail for our military veterans.
Last year I attended 29 funerals. I have attended 3 so far this year, but one of those was for a classmate's mother. (I mention that because lately I have not been going to funerals for anyone other than veterans. It is not that I don't do funerals. It is just that I haven't needed to go to any funerals lately - other than veterans. Yes, 8 out of 10 times I actually knew the veteran.)
Anyway, I attend funerals - and do the things I have to do, when the temperature is 20 degrees below zero or 100 degrees; when it is snowing, raining, "sunning" (hot), or just a beautiful day.
Sometimes there are more people in the Funeral Detail than there are attending the services. That is really sad - and I am always honored to be in attendance regardless of the weather.
Your friend's sign is correct - by my observation. I will steal it and make sure the others guys on the Funeral Detail see it. They will get a kick out of it, because when you do the things we do, it helps to have a sense of humor.
Thank you for what you do. No veteran should be alone on that final day. Yesterday, I attended this service for a Lady Warrior who died alone. Her service to this nation was honored by over 100 people, none of whom knew her. With the work we do for MIAP, we are notified when one of these homeless vet services is planned.
It was a very moving service, and included about 30 young people from a local high school, many of whom were very moved by the sad facts of this veteran's passing. The committal shelter was far too small, the weather was Oregon Wet Sunshine, and still they came. I am in the video at 1:24 seated next to the young lady singing and leaning on my cane. We will add Casey Finnegan to our family, and place flowers when we visit on Veterans Day. As the man who launched our group on its mission used to say "It is the right thing to do."
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/homeless-veteran-laid-to-rest-with-full-military-honors/415778006
It is said that everyone dies twice: Once when the heart stops, the second when their name is spoken for the last time.
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No veteran should be alone on that final day.
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Occasionally we get a notice from the funeral home that our presence is requested at the funeral service.
That usually is very bad news - because it means that nobody else will be there except a very few of the family - and us. [V]