Living Funerals

We here at lastwisbook.com promote organising the inevitable, so if youknow you are on your way out then why not organise a living funeral. It is away of saying goodbye to those you love and passing on happy memories.

 

Living funerals arebecoming more and more popular. People with terminal illness sometimes acceptwhat is happening to them and see living funerals as an easy and informal wayof getting all their friends and family together for one last party. You don'thave to call it a Living Funeral if you think that all sounds a bit morbid.Just call it a party!

But there are a few downsides....

1. When it is over, itis over!

Once the funeral isdone, you will be considered all but dead. All the goodbyes have been said.Closure will be complete for most of the attendees, but it will not be completefor those close to you. If your will was read then, you will never see thoseexcluded from it again. Also, not many attendees will come back to you and say,"Hey, friend. That was a great funeral. If you have another one, pleaseinvite me again."

2. What about yourspouse and family?

Your funeral is nottotally about you per se. Rather it is about your life. That is, it is aboutyour past, what you did or did not do, and your family and friends. You arecertainly the featured person attending this celebrant or mournful event. But,most funerals give considerable amounts of consolation, sympathy, and closureto your living family and their friends. Thus, to a degree, funerals in generalare for the living you left behind.

3. Do you want to be eulogised by others?

Unless you give yourown eulogy at a living funeral, the praise you receive there could be limited.Nice things will be said about you in a friendly gratuitous manner at a livingfuneral. And you will get to hear them with a grin on your face. But, for themost part, we humans generally do not say really good or great things aboutsomeone until he or she is dead and gone, even among family and friends.

So it's up to youreally... There are benefits and down falls to the living funeral, it really depends on how you look at it.

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