Visitations/Funerals

[Simbagal23]

my ex-girlfriend was shot in the head and they had an open casket..

i will never, ever, ever forget that..

and i didn't even know it was an open casket.. i walked around the
corner and headed into the church and BAM.. right there in front of
you.. no chance to slowly approach it or even to avoid it even if
you wanted to..

One of my husband's co-workers was Austrian, he married an American gal and they had a baby. His life started to go downhill and he allegedly committed suicide (I say allegedly because many of us believe he was murdered....but that's beside the point). Anyway, the "grieving widow" planned the visitation/funeral, typical American version. His family arrived from Austria not knowing what they were walking into.....apparently, they all freaked out and started screaming when they saw the open casket with their dead son/brother inside. Europeans (for the most part) cremate and don't have open casket visitations....I guess this visitation turned into quite a fiasco.

[TimeForGuinness]

I plan on have a few kegs next to my casket

[Transmogrified Tiger]

One of my college roommates (and he had gone to my high school for a couple of years) died a little while back. He had an open casket funeral. It was incredibly sad. In general obviously but also because he was 23 years old and his mom had already lost her husband and now her only child. She pretty much sobbed through the whole thing looking at his body.

Why would she decide to do that? That had to have been her call unless your ex-roommate was married.

[G. Keenan]

my ex-girlfriend was shot in the head and they had an open casket..

i will never, ever, ever forget that..

and i didn't even know it was an open casket.. i walked around the
corner and headed into the church and BAM.. right there in front of
you.. no chance to slowly approach it or even to avoid it even if
you wanted to..

Holy hell. I can't even imagine that.

[JL21]

I guess it's there to give people closure, but it seems like it just causes more problems- leaving you with an image of the person that you didn't want. Everybody grieves differently. Some of the stories in here are crazy, though. I'm all for helping people get closure but seeing a woman that's been shot in the head isn't going to achieve that (or any of the other grim tales).

Personally, I want a closed casket with a recording of myself, pounding on something and saying "Let me out! I'm not dead!" playing from the inside. And then after that, I'm going to be stuffed. TFG will keep me on display in his living room.

[omaha_red]

my ex-girlfriend was shot in the head and they had an open casket..

i will never, ever, ever forget that..

and i didn't even know it was an open casket.. i walked around the
corner and headed into the church and BAM.. right there in front of
you.. no chance to slowly approach it or even to avoid it even if
you wanted to..

Holy hell. I can't even imagine that.

it was terrible.. in the casket was a drawing i had done for her too..super wierd to see that
we had been broken up for a little over a year i guess.. i went away
to college and she stayed in my hometown.. she moved to wyoming
with some guy and was dead a year later.. they found her in a car
with a hole in her head.. they said it was a suicide, but to this day
her parents say they know it was murder.. it's a terrible story..

[TimeForGuinness]

Personally, I want a closed casket with a recording of myself, pounding on something and saying "Let me out! I'm not dead!" playing from the inside. And then after that, I'm going to be stuffed. TFG will keep me on display in his living room.

This is true...his hands will be my fancy beer koozies.

[JL21]

Personally, I want a closed casket with a recording of myself, pounding on something and saying "Let me out! I'm not dead!" playing from the inside. And then after that, I'm going to be stuffed. TFG will keep me on display in his living room.

This is true...his hands will be my fancy beer koozies.

Just don't let anyone put their penis in my corpse's mouth.

I mean, if you're going to promise to keep someone's stuffed corpse, you should be respectful.

[TimeForGuinness]

Personally, I want a closed casket with a recording of myself, pounding on something and saying "Let me out! I'm not dead!" playing from the inside. And then after that, I'm going to be stuffed. TFG will keep me on display in his living room.

This is true...his hands will be my fancy beer koozies.

Just don't let anyone put their penis in my corpse's mouth.

I mean, if you're going to promise to keep someone's stuffed corpse, you should be respectful.

I make no promises...you sure have a pretty mouth tho...

[G. Keenan]

Jesus omaha, I'm so sorry. That is one of the saddest stories I've ever heard.