Al's Funeral

[poliphilo]

Al had always said he didn't want any religion at his funeral. So the undertaker provided this beardy guy (they always have beards, I don't know why) who we were informed was a humanist minister.  He started off pretty well- with a long, detailed account of Al's life- but then- about five minutes before the end- he allowed Jesus to creep in through the side door and invited us to praise him, thank him and ask him to do us favours. Ailz turned to me and said. "If Al can hear and there's room in that coffin" (which there won't have been because he was a very big guy) "he'll be spinning!"

It was the coldest night thus far. The temperature at Dukinfield cemetery was two degrees below. On our way there we had the sun setting to the left of us and the moon rising to the right of us in a totally cloudless sky.

Comments

collective thought

[(Anonymous)]

It seems dissapointing in general life when points of view are forced upon people or preached where there is no need for a preacher. Espescially in the situation you spoke off, you dont get clothed ministers in a nudist wedding its just not fair, he should be praying that his verbal religious diahreah is forgiven by his god and the people attending the funeral because insensitive to the departed and damn right rude and disrespectfukl to those attending. Hopefully a bird will shit on his holy shoulders for his sins.

Re: collective thought

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't know what part of "humanist funeral service" he failed to understand.

Ah well, mainly I think it was funny. And I suspect Alan would have done so too. It's my experience that most funeral services are pretty bloody awful.