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If you are used to UK funerals here is how it works here
1) I am hit by a meteor. I am now dead. Everyone is sad. It goes in the paper that day, on http://rip.ie and local radio that I’m dead and where and when the removal and funeral aware on.
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1) I am hit by a meteor. I am now dead. Everyone is sad. It goes in the paper that day, on http://rip.ie and local radio that I’m dead and where and when the removal and funeral aware on.
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2) I am undertakered up. By the next day I am ready for my Removal of Remains. This is like a mini-funeral you can go to if you won’t make the main one, or if you’re keen you might do both.
Removals are sad.
I may be brought to my house and a vigil overnight kept by family etc
Removals are sad.
I may be brought to my house and a vigil overnight kept by family etc
Day 3- body travels to the church/ funeral home/ other if it wasn’t there already.
There is a Big Show and it is, no joke, Very Sad and moving. It is piercing. It ends with a eulogy, frequently heroically delivered.
Now off I go again to travel to graveyard/ crematorium.
There is a Big Show and it is, no joke, Very Sad and moving. It is piercing. It ends with a eulogy, frequently heroically delivered.
Now off I go again to travel to graveyard/ crematorium.
People leave the church/funeral home/ other and will follow my hearse to the graveyard (on foot of its within walking distance).
This is an important decompression interlude after the intensity of the coffin leaving.
There will be jokes and catching-up.
This is an important decompression interlude after the intensity of the coffin leaving.
There will be jokes and catching-up.
More intensity as the coffin goes into the ground.
That is v hard.
Afterwards, people stand around the grave, chatting.
Then, time to feed everyone.
Invitations will have been extended back during the funeral to come and eat. Everyone goes and eats. Some drink will be supplied
That is v hard.
Afterwards, people stand around the grave, chatting.
Then, time to feed everyone.
Invitations will have been extended back during the funeral to come and eat. Everyone goes and eats. Some drink will be supplied
Note: After my meteor interface, I am in the ground (or ash) within a handful of days.
Now everyone can and will have a party as the eats go on. Extended family catches up, everyone agrees I was a great fellow altogether, the general volume of conversation increases hourly.
Now everyone can and will have a party as the eats go on. Extended family catches up, everyone agrees I was a great fellow altogether, the general volume of conversation increases hourly.
Note- as long as I look OK after my encounter with the meteor, everyone will see me lying dead in my coffin. This is totally fine, as long as the mourners are OK with it. Kids too, if they want.
Look it, I am dead, and have no opinion one way or the other here.
Look it, I am dead, and have no opinion one way or the other here.
People abroad chortle about the Irish wake, but remember these are people whose loved one died literally a handful of days ago and who they spent the morning mourning and popping in the ground.
This is a High Intensity party.
This is a High Intensity party.
I literally cannot imagine how this UK version would be anything but a horror.
https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/help-resources/arranging-a-funeral/when-to-hold-a-funeral
https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/help-resources/arranging-a-funeral/when-to-hold-a-funeral
