Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

penthesilea: My god, was it fatal?

one body was found at the scene

I thought we weren't letting Father McGuire do funerals anymore.

I was a teenage gravedigger. Once in a while, we'd get a casket that didn't lower properly into the vault. We'd just lower the vault top anyway and fix it later. Such burial were called "kickers" because we had to lift the lid, jump into the grave and kick the casket till it flopped into the vault. No biggie.

Please tell me that the family won't be suing.

Looks like the Keebler Elves struck again.

FarkinHostile: Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

The same sick farks who take photos of the dead in the casket. Usually white trash.

Oh, and if someone can find the picture of George Costanza beside the coffin I'd appreciate it.

UH MAH GAAWD. WHO KIN SHE SUE?

FarkinHostile: Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

It's nice to have video of eulogies from family and friends, especially if you're upset at the time and might want to hear what people say again later when you're in a better frame of mind. But yeah, I agree a video of something like the casket being lowered is redundant, it's not like you'll forget it, and it's also not something anybody who's not present is likely to want to see (disabled shut-ins who wanted to attend accepted of course).

Atomic Spunk: Please tell me that the family won't be suing.

Haha, of course they are! Why else would you contact the media about this?

FarkinHostile: Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

Seriously.

nekom: penthesilea: My god, was it fatal?

It happened in a cemetery, I would imagine HUNDREDS are dead. Oh the humanity!

People are just dying to get in there.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

FarkinHostile: Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

Someone who's hoping something goes horribly wrong so they have video evidence when it comes time to sue? Not implying anything here.

"To see that casket fall is something out of a horror movie," says Washington.


No, generally that sort of thing happens in COMEDIES.

Because it's FUNNY when something unexpected and undignified happens at somber, formal occasions.

Someday we'll remember this and laugh...and laugh...and laugh...

DeerNuts: FarkinHostile: Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

The same sick farks who take photos of the dead in the casket. Usually white trash.


That's nothing. My family takes shiatloads of pictures of our relatives before they're even dead. We're hardcore.

When I die, bury me face down so my kids will have a place to park their bikes.

FunkOut: Rolled up in a favourite blanket, dumped in a hole, and planting a tree on top is a another good one. Make sure it's a fruit tree, then everyone can have creepy remembrance apples.

Squire von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in Havelland

Squire von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in Havelland,
In his garden there stood a pear tree grand,
And when autumn came round, the golden tide,
And pears were glowing far and wide,
Squire von Ribbeck, when noon rang out, would first
Fill both his pockets full to burst.
And then, when a boy in his clogs came there,
He called: "My lad, do you want a pear?"
He would hail a girl that chanced to pass:
"Come over, I have a pear, little lass!"


Many years thus went, till the noble and high
Squire von Ribbeck at Ribbeck came to die.
He felt his end. It was autumntide.
Again pears were smiling far and wide.
"I depart now this life" von Ribbeck said.
I wish that a pear in my grave be laid".
And after three days, from this mansard roofed hall,
Squire von Ribbeck was carried out, `neath a pall.
All farmers and cottagers, solemm-faced,
Sang: "Jesus, in Thee my trust is placed",
And the children lamented, with hearts like lead:
"Who`ll give us a pear, now that he is dead.?"
So the children lamented. It was unkind,


As they did not know old Ribbeck´s mind.
True, the new one is skimping nubianrdly,
Keeps park and pears tree `neath lock and key;
But having forebodings, the older one,
And full of distrust for his proper son,
Knew well what he did, when the order he gave,
That a pear should be laid in his grave.

From the silent dwelling, after three years,
The tip of a pear tree seedling appears.
And year after year, the seasons go round,
Long since a pear tree is shading the mound.

And in the golden autumntide
Again it is glowing far and wide.
When a boy is crossing the churchyard there,
The tree is whispering: Want a pear?"
And when a girl chances to pass,
It whispers: "Come here for a pear, little lass."


Thus blessings still dispenses the hand
Of von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in Havelland.

Theodor Fontane, 1889

/obscure?

Tumunga: nekom: penthesilea: My god, was it fatal?

It happened in a cemetery, I would imagine HUNDREDS are dead. Oh the humanity!

People are just dying to get in there.

That's why they put up a fence with gates around them.

It's a nightmare that Bradenton resident Kimberly Washington wishes wasn't real. "I can't sleep. My mind is constantly thinking about it."

Jesus lady, he's dead. He doesn't give a shiat.

I hope if this happens at my funeral everyone has a good laugh. I know I would.

Just toss me into a trashCo waste disposal unit. Also, have a party with the several thousand dollars a funeral costs.

Ayatollah Khomeini popping out of the casket (new window) NSFFark (dead body).

I'd say ol' Pops was rolling in the grave over his daughter shacking-up with the mulleted she-beast.

If this had happened at my dad's funeral everyone there would have laughed their asses off.

Atomic Spunk: Please tell me that the family won't be suing.


I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.

DeerNuts: FarkinHostile: Honestly, who the fark makes a home video of a funeral?

The same sick farks who take photos of the dead in the casket. Usually white trash.

Oh, and if someone can find the picture of George Costanza beside the coffin I'd appreciate it.

Really, Fark?? "Nubianrdly"?

am I a terrible person for laughing?

I'm a terrible person

(maybe)

Was there a gay dwarf on drugs?

Did it happen a few years later, slightly worse, with the same dward but a black family?

So did pops go to heaven or hell? The article didn't even say.

I find it incredibly morbid that people worship and care for dead bodies like they do. It's so weird.

+1 for cremation.