I find the whole thing to be very strange. Ever since I was a young kid, I never liked the idea. I don’t mind if people want to get together and reminisce, but I don’t want my lifeless body there, and I especially do not like the idea of my body being buried
I’d rather the money was spent on something useful rather than having a big party ‘in my honour’ that I won’t be able to attend. Donate what would have been spent on a funeral to a DV charity and sprinkle my ashes in the sea.
Because it is ridiculously expensive, and because I do not want to be lying in a box, being touched by people I would not have allowed to touch me when I was alive. My family never did wakes. Just a brief memorial service, and a private cremains burial, if that is what they wanted.
It’s cost a lot of money. At. Funeral home in my home town you can prepay for your cremation at today’s prices and it won’t cost any more for the cremation when you die. I plan on doing that and having my ashes thrown at ocean shores washington or seaside Oregon.
regardless if I wanted one, I don’t think there will be anyone to give me a formal funeral when I die if it’s by old age. I wouldn’t really want a formal funeral anyway, bury me in a deep grove forest. I want to provide nourishment to the entire forest.
Mainly because I don’t want people to gather in my name and tell lies about me. Whether it’s “Oh, she was so wonderful” or “She was a backstabbing liar and a cheat.” I’m none of those things! Hopefully I’m going to be verryyy old and most people will have forgotten me. And I don’t want a burial, either. Cremate my remains and spread them in the forest.
Because it’s a big dragged out ordeal where I’m from and i feel sick at the thoughts of putting my mother through that, also I want to come back and haunt my dad as quick as I can so just burn me up and scatter me I’ll find him
A few years ago, a rumour went round that I was dead, which stuck for a while and alot of people believed it. Really I just move a lot and wasn’t active on social media, I sort of disappeared which is how the rumour started.
When I came back it was hilarious (to me anyway, for others it was traumatic), I had risen from the grave, people couldn’t believe I was alive or thought they were seeing a ghost.
I kind of grew to like the image. No one really knowing if I’m alive or dead. Without a funeral it’s pretty hard for people to confirm it.
Obscenely expensive and outrageously uncomfortable for basically everyone involved. Who wants to try and mourn while being on display?? They’re always awful. I’ve been to funerals of people I truly truly loved but they’re always awful.
I simply don’t. It’s my life and if I don’t want one, I won’t have one. Just throw me in the middle of the woods and let any wild animals devour my corpse.
If my parents are still alive when I die, they would insist on making it religious af. I don’t want that shit. I also don’t like the sappy stories, the crying, the annoyingly soft music they play at those parlors. The flowers, the tissue boxes, those little memorial cars. It’s all pageantry for grief to grab onto.
Scatter my ashes around some trees so I can be part of something natural and beautiful in death. Have a party with good music, delicious food, and a brief moment of silence for me. I want my loved ones to celebrate my life, not weep over my loss.
Its wasteful. When I think of all the millions of dead bodies in coffins taking up real estate and for what? Loved ones to visit once or twice and then never again, its just a huge waste!
Bury me and have a party at my buddies or siblings house. Laugh and carry on. Don’t put me up on some shelf neither someone’s kid usually knocks that sucker down and I become one with the wood floors crevices.
My family pretty much ignores me anyways, no one stops by to visit, I’m a terminal cardiopulmonary patient on assisted oxygen 24/7 living alone, why bother with a funeral when they don’t bother to see me while I’m alive.
Because I don’t want an all-out over me. Wife and I attended a funeral over the weekend and it just reinforced that thought. She’s the same way – we both don’t want anything like that; just cremate us and spread our ashes somewhere special to us.
Not enough people would attend to make it worthwhile. Factor in the fact that nobody like attending funerals, it’s a coping mechanism for surviving family members. Nobody other than family usually visits gravesites anyways. And when they are gone it’s even more pointless.
I don’t want people I have since in years showing up and I don’t want my family or kids stressed out about the cost of a funeral. Just scatter my ashes at a beach and I’ll be happy.
It’s already so expensive and stressful for the ones left behind. I told my kids I want a Viking funeral- wear some horns, blow some horns, drink out of some horns, light me up and let me go!
Beyond the fact I prefer cremation and have no particular location I’m tied to anyway, if I live a relatively normal lifespan I don’t expect there to be a lot of people who would be around for a funeral. Both sides of my family are like an inverted family tree with a lot more people in the older generations than younger. I have no children, my sister has two (who don’t have that much connection to me) and only a couple of cousins have a couple of children each whom I’ve only met a couple of times or not at all. Most of our friends live hours and hours away.
I’ll be dead, why tf do I care for a big fancy send off. Throw my ass in a refrigerator box and burn me. Throw my ashes in the ocean or in the grass and the world will keep spinning.
There’s just so many better things you can do with a dead body. My mother for instance would like to be donated to criminal forensics. Leave her in the woods for a few months then let some poor newbie earn their stomachs.
My wife would like a viking burial. And she’s dead serious on the matter.
I myself would like what they call a sky burial. Don’t need the long walk up the mountain. Just chop me up and feed some wolves or some shit. I want nature to be able to embrace my corpse for the survival of another being.
IDGAF what happens to my body after I’m not using it any more. I told my kids that I have the cremation covered and to just drop me off at the dump if they like.
Because I want a party! It should be a celebration of my life, not a fucking miserable funeral which absolutely no-one enjoys.
People shouldn’t mourn me if they miss me, I’d much rather they felt blessed that they had someone in their life worth missing, that’s the way I’ve learnt to deal with people I’ve lost and I’ve found it far better.
I want to be stuffed too, and propped up at the bar with a beer in my hand smiling and enjoying it with them but no-one seems to like that idea for some reason…
As others have said, I just don’t want my passing to be a financial burden for my family. The cheapest, easiest way is fine by me. Besides, I can’t afford to have my body cryogenically frozen for a future awakening.
Because I’d rather be cremated and have all the ashes of my dear pets mixed in with me. I don’t care what vessel we are in, or what happens to our ashes afterwards. I just wanna be back with my babies.
Funerals are for the living, not the dead. When I’m dead, I can’t care. Feed me to animals, burn me, bury me, shoot me into space. It doesn’t matter. I’m meat at this point, what biology that made me “me” is well gone at that point. So if people that miss me that are alive want to do something. That’s on them. Feels like a bit wasteful for money. But so are weddings.
I won’t care either way TBH. Once I’m dead I won’t care about anything anymore. The living ca. do whatever the heck they want with my remains as I won’t be attached to them anymore.
Same reason as my dad, it’s so expensive my money is better spent on being left for my family. My dad asked only that we have a dinner in his honor so we went to a fancy restaurant and spent $500 on dinner for seven of us: his three sons, his wife (our mother), and his three daughters-in-law, Plus a Happy meal from McDonald’s for his only grandchild my son who stayed at home with my aunt while we went out for our fancy dinner
Because I’m going to have a Fun-eral. Basically a funeral but instead of it being about you it more like a party but with your body just kinda in the corner watching over everyone. That way people have one last moment of fun because of me
Being becong frozen and shaken to pieces and turned into fertaliser for my own little personal grave tree just seems like a nice way to give back to the world everything I took while alive.
I do want a funeral in my church with the music and readings that I’ve selected. It’s the wake (viewing) that I don’t want. I’m going to be cremated because I don’t want a bunch of people sitting around the funeral parlor for hours looking at my corpse and talking about me.
Because every funeral I’ve been to of a totally not-religion (even anti-religious) person, they die and then their funeral is FULL of religion crap, and even has priests and shit. Like I know for a fact the person would be ENRAGED by this, and I always say NO RELIGION and especially NO PRIEST at my funeral, but I feel like once I die everyone will just do it anyway because “it’s normal”.
My mom didn’t want one because she hated going to them. My family followed her wishes. Over the years, we discovered that funerals are good at accelerating the grieving process. Otherwise, you just stuff that stuff down and it slowly trickles out over the course of several years.
I keep seeing everyone saying waste of money or boring but for me they’re horrible. The first funeral I went to was at 20 and it was my mom and all I wanted to do was collapse on the floor and cry. I didn’t care about the people or their well wishes or the service and none of it made me feel better. So yeah. I think the whole thing was just horrible. Every funeral after reminds me of the first. I think if anything a funeral should be for immediate family and take ten minutes tops.
I’ve never seen anyone get any benefit from any of the funerals I have attended. Except maybe some very religious people who do get some sort of experience they seem to benefit from. But no family of mine who would still be alive at my time of death are religious.
I never understood the point, and I still don’t. I guess for some it gives closure, for me it just makes it worse. I want to be cremated and that’s it, no funeral, no service, no nothing.
I want my body to be donated to a university. I love the idea of some college students looking at my joints or dissecting me and thinking ‘’Damn, how’d she do THAT?’’
No one would come to it so why bother having one. They don’t visit now, they sure as hell won’t do it when I’m dead. There’s no one who would miss me outside of my spouse so it’s not like there’s going to be a huge get together of people reminiscing about me.
I’m in the process of pre arranging/ pre paying for it. Cremation, no fancy casket, no wake, no services. No plot in a cemetery.
Because I paid for my grandma’s. Got paid back by her estate but it was expensive enough that my mom and I agreed to cremation for both of us. No need for a funeral.
1- APPARENTLY… Viking funerals are illegal (according to my wife)…
2- I’m doubtful the turnout would justify the cost. Aside from a very small circle, I don’t need a gathering of people pretending they miss me when they’re nowhere to be found while I draw breath.
My kin are so southern, my mom tried to get me dates at a family reunion (true story). In Kentucky, funerals are judged like a talent show. Whoever makes the biggest scene (screaming, throwing themselves on the casket, etc…) that’s who loved the deceased the most. Fuck that shit. I am not putting myself and my loved ones through that hell.
I’d rather have my family have that money to go on vacation or do something nice for themselves. To hopefully ease them of the pain of loss by keeping them busy.
Had to spend over £6,000 for our grandad’s headstone and it wasn’t even all that fancy. Just his full name and dates, that’s all, and for that price that’s crazy. Nevermind all the other costs.
Because it’s expensive. I also doubt many people will come(I’m not unfriendly. Just super shy and don’t have any friends) and I’ve always hated being the center of attention.
Like so many others, I don’t want a financial burden on my family. Throw me in the dump for all I care. Just make sure you bust out the good liquor for your celebration of my life, especially if the means in which I died was fuckin’ dumb.
My mom passed away last month and in her final days she made it clear she didn’t want a funeral. Her reasoning was the cost, but she also hated funerals herself. She was a very emotional person so she had a hard time. She decided she wanted a party instead. I ended up getting a hall and buying a ton of food and inviting her friends and family. For myself, I’d like to be thrown in a ditch with a end loader bucket of dirt dumped over me. The funeral industry is a scam that preys on grieving families. My aunt passed away in January and it cost $3k for a rental casket for the funeral because my aunt was being cremated.
Because funerals cost money and once I’m gone, I want to cost my family as little as possible. I tell them to donate me to science/medicine, have a service if they want, and don’t spend a dime more than absolutely necessary. I’m dead, I won’t know it. Ten minutes after the service, they won’t care if the casket was velvet lined, or if the urn was solid brass, or whatever shit they can upsell.
I want to be composted back into soil, in the Seattle area there is a place that will put you back as soil in Olympic National forest. I don’t want to be embalmed and slowly rot in a casket or turned to useless carbon ash. This way I get to keep going as part of a tree or a seed that will feed birds and squirrels. If it’s important to people that I knew they can come to forest to see me off or they can have soil to plant something at home.
Funerals are for the living. Both of my parents donated their bodies to science (as I intend to as well). For each of them we had a small get-together for friends and family.
For all the reasons mentioned, as well as the fact I hate being the centre of attention. It is for the same reason I hate birthday parties, except this time it will be 10x more emotional and dramatic. Although I am atheist, my family is Muslim so I’ll probably get a Muslim burial, which I honestly prefer to other types of funerals. Your body is wrapped in cloth and then buried just like that; no need for a casket, tomb lining, fancy tombstone or whatever else the funeral homes try selling you. It’s a relatively short affair as well in my experience, which is how funerals should be imo.
I don’t have strong feelings about it either way (I won’t care). But I used to work at various functions (funerals, bat mitzvahs, etc.) and one day my company assigned me to staff a celebration of life for an older woman who had terminal cancer. If I’m in a situation where I know it’s coming, I think that’s a really nice idea and would prefer that to a funeral.
I’ve personally told everyone in my family that if they spend a dime after I die (excluding things that are legally required) I’ll haunt them and their descendants for eternity. It’s expensive and unnecessary.
I don’t want a funeral, too much pressure to look good while doing absolutely nothing. Like, imagine lying there and everyone’s judging your final outfit. No thanks, just toss me in a forest and let the raccoons handle it.
My parents never had one. It cost a lot just to cremate them so they said to not spend any more than needed. I feel the same. Once I’m dead send me off as cheap as possible.
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Because fuck the funeral industry. Dump my body in the ground and plant a tree ontop of it and leave it at that
Waste of money
So my kids can inherit more money. There won’t be a body anyway, I’ve already arranged to donate it to the local medical college.
I find the whole thing to be very strange. Ever since I was a young kid, I never liked the idea. I don’t mind if people want to get together and reminisce, but I don’t want my lifeless body there, and I especially do not like the idea of my body being buried
I’d rather the money was spent on something useful rather than having a big party ‘in my honour’ that I won’t be able to attend. Donate what would have been spent on a funeral to a DV charity and sprinkle my ashes in the sea.
Because I don’t want them mourning my life but celebrating what a great life I had and hopefully how much they enjoyed the chance to know me.
Funerals are dull and boring… I want everyone to get together for a party.
Because the industry takes advantage of heartbroken families
like why does it need to be $15,000+???
Because no fun
Because I don’t want to die
It’s an absolute waste of money. I’d rather be buried in the backyard with a tree planted on top of me for like $5.
Because it is ridiculously expensive, and because I do not want to be lying in a box, being touched by people I would not have allowed to touch me when I was alive. My family never did wakes. Just a brief memorial service, and a private cremains burial, if that is what they wanted.
Expensive waste of time/money.
Complete waste of money.
Why bother? Nobody will be there.
Because I will never die.
Bankrupt my family? Fuck that.
Not dead yet.
It’s cost a lot of money. At. Funeral home in my home town you can prepay for your cremation at today’s prices and it won’t cost any more for the cremation when you die. I plan on doing that and having my ashes thrown at ocean shores washington or seaside Oregon.
Cuz it’s an expensive bummer!
Because it is gross and expensive. Just light me on fire and send me to hell.
Because all my family members will just lie about me and use my death as some way to get attention and make it about themselves.
Then they’ll just fight over my stuff with the façade that they need somthing to remember me by.
regardless if I wanted one, I don’t think there will be anyone to give me a formal funeral when I die if it’s by old age. I wouldn’t really want a formal funeral anyway, bury me in a deep grove forest. I want to provide nourishment to the entire forest.
Mainly because I don’t want people to gather in my name and tell lies about me. Whether it’s “Oh, she was so wonderful” or “She was a backstabbing liar and a cheat.” I’m none of those things! Hopefully I’m going to be verryyy old and most people will have forgotten me. And I don’t want a burial, either. Cremate my remains and spread them in the forest.
Because it’s a big dragged out ordeal where I’m from and i feel sick at the thoughts of putting my mother through that, also I want to come back and haunt my dad as quick as I can so just burn me up and scatter me I’ll find him
A few years ago, a rumour went round that I was dead, which stuck for a while and alot of people believed it. Really I just move a lot and wasn’t active on social media, I sort of disappeared which is how the rumour started.
When I came back it was hilarious (to me anyway, for others it was traumatic), I had risen from the grave, people couldn’t believe I was alive or thought they were seeing a ghost.
I kind of grew to like the image. No one really knowing if I’m alive or dead. Without a funeral it’s pretty hard for people to confirm it.
I just don’t want my family to feel a financial burden of paying for it.
Cause it’s just meat and hair, toss it in the dump.
Obscenely expensive and outrageously uncomfortable for basically everyone involved. Who wants to try and mourn while being on display?? They’re always awful. I’ve been to funerals of people I truly truly loved but they’re always awful.
I want my ashes turned into a firework bro
I simply don’t. It’s my life and if I don’t want one, I won’t have one. Just throw me in the middle of the woods and let any wild animals devour my corpse.
It’s a waste of money. Just spread my remains somewhere, also don’t cremate me….
The same reason I don’t want a rock 1000 miles away from me to move two inches to the left.
It literally will not affect me in any way.
Its so expensive
I don’t want anyone to be sad once I pass away
The potential financial burden on the living. I’ll disappear into the woods and go on my own terms, thank you very much.
When I’m dead just throw me in the trash -frank reynolds.
If my parents are still alive when I die, they would insist on making it religious af. I don’t want that shit. I also don’t like the sappy stories, the crying, the annoyingly soft music they play at those parlors. The flowers, the tissue boxes, those little memorial cars. It’s all pageantry for grief to grab onto.
Scatter my ashes around some trees so I can be part of something natural and beautiful in death. Have a party with good music, delicious food, and a brief moment of silence for me. I want my loved ones to celebrate my life, not weep over my loss.
Its wasteful. When I think of all the millions of dead bodies in coffins taking up real estate and for what? Loved ones to visit once or twice and then never again, its just a huge waste!
Bury me and have a party at my buddies or siblings house. Laugh and carry on. Don’t put me up on some shelf neither someone’s kid usually knocks that sucker down and I become one with the wood floors crevices.
Waste of money and I highly doubt there’ll be that many people who will care when I’m dead.
My family pretty much ignores me anyways, no one stops by to visit, I’m a terminal cardiopulmonary patient on assisted oxygen 24/7 living alone, why bother with a funeral when they don’t bother to see me while I’m alive.
I DO want a funeral!
Because I don’t want an all-out over me. Wife and I attended a funeral over the weekend and it just reinforced that thought. She’s the same way – we both don’t want anything like that; just cremate us and spread our ashes somewhere special to us.
No one would go anyway.
Such a painful and morbid ceremony, plus wild work to want an expensive party for yourself after you’re uh….yeah. I’m good.
I hate awkward social expectations. Plus who likes attention on them, even in the afterworld?
Waste of money. Cremate me. Sell the house. Take the insurance money. Get grief counseling and move on. That’s exactly what I told my daughter.
Because I’m an introvert to the end.
I hate funerals and I don’t want to put anyone through the sadness.
Just want to say to everyone who doesn’t want a funeral, consider being an organ donor if you aren’t already. It saves people’s lives.
Too expensive. I’d rather my family use that money for something useful
Not enough people would attend to make it worthwhile. Factor in the fact that nobody like attending funerals, it’s a coping mechanism for surviving family members. Nobody other than family usually visits gravesites anyways. And when they are gone it’s even more pointless.
It’s a waste of money. I’m having a basic cremation, and then they can flush my ashes down the toilet for all I care.
They are a waste of money. I want to be cremated and my ashes sprinkled into the ocean.
I don’t give a shit. I’m dead.
There is more people I don’t want at my funeral then I do want.
I don’t want people I have since in years showing up and I don’t want my family or kids stressed out about the cost of a funeral. Just scatter my ashes at a beach and I’ll be happy.
I don’t care either way. They’re for the living not the dead and if it makes them feel better have at it.
It’s already so expensive and stressful for the ones left behind. I told my kids I want a Viking funeral- wear some horns, blow some horns, drink out of some horns, light me up and let me go!
I come from a family where fights routinely break out at both weddings and funerals. Don’t send me off with that energy
Funeral ain’t for me. Whatever gives my loved ones closure – I could care less what you do with me, as-long as it’s what whoever’s burying me wants
Beyond the fact I prefer cremation and have no particular location I’m tied to anyway, if I live a relatively normal lifespan I don’t expect there to be a lot of people who would be around for a funeral. Both sides of my family are like an inverted family tree with a lot more people in the older generations than younger. I have no children, my sister has two (who don’t have that much connection to me) and only a couple of cousins have a couple of children each whom I’ve only met a couple of times or not at all. Most of our friends live hours and hours away.
There just wouldn’t be a point.
Well it’s not like I’m going to be there..
I’ll be dead, why tf do I care for a big fancy send off. Throw my ass in a refrigerator box and burn me. Throw my ashes in the ocean or in the grass and the world will keep spinning.
There’s just so many better things you can do with a dead body. My mother for instance would like to be donated to criminal forensics. Leave her in the woods for a few months then let some poor newbie earn their stomachs.
My wife would like a viking burial. And she’s dead serious on the matter.
I myself would like what they call a sky burial. Don’t need the long walk up the mountain. Just chop me up and feed some wolves or some shit. I want nature to be able to embrace my corpse for the survival of another being.
Why pay for a party no one will attend and I’ll be too dead to enjoy anyway?
IDGAF what happens to my body after I’m not using it any more. I told my kids that I have the cremation covered and to just drop me off at the dump if they like.
Because I want a party! It should be a celebration of my life, not a fucking miserable funeral which absolutely no-one enjoys.
People shouldn’t mourn me if they miss me, I’d much rather they felt blessed that they had someone in their life worth missing, that’s the way I’ve learnt to deal with people I’ve lost and I’ve found it far better.
I want to be stuffed too, and propped up at the bar with a beer in my hand smiling and enjoying it with them but no-one seems to like that idea for some reason…
Source of too much sadness.
Way too expensive and I dont get to enjoy it.
As others have said, I just don’t want my passing to be a financial burden for my family. The cheapest, easiest way is fine by me. Besides, I can’t afford to have my body cryogenically frozen for a future awakening.
Nobody will come to mine anyway lmao
Just want to be cremated and have my ashes spread to the wind on the land where I have lived most of my life.
There is no point. There is only my brother and I left out of my immediate family, no kids, so why?
Waste of money I’ll let my husband decide what do with my ashes woods or ocean but don’t bother others with accolades I’ll never hear!😘
I hate being around people in life, no need for it in death. Burn me and be done with it.
spend money for useless things
No point spending money on me, I’d be dead, I won’t notice. Can go to a bar or have a get together at home if you want to reminisce.
I’m dead. Won’t care either way. It’s about the living and what they need to grieve.
That said, what a waste of money.
Cause I’m still livin geez
Because I’d rather be cremated and have all the ashes of my dear pets mixed in with me. I don’t care what vessel we are in, or what happens to our ashes afterwards. I just wanna be back with my babies.
Because I’d rather people celebrate my life than mourn my death
Expensive.
When I’m dead I’m dead. Dead people have zero desires, wants, wishes, fellings anything. It’s just nothing.
So why would I want to pay for something I would get nothing out of.
I’m also not ordering a big bucket of kfc after I die
Waste of money
Ain’t them shits hella expensive?
Funerals are for the living, not the dead. When I’m dead, I can’t care. Feed me to animals, burn me, bury me, shoot me into space. It doesn’t matter. I’m meat at this point, what biology that made me “me” is well gone at that point. So if people that miss me that are alive want to do something. That’s on them. Feels like a bit wasteful for money. But so are weddings.
They’re pointless and only used to exploit the family for thousands upon thousands of dollars.
No one would show up so it would be a waste of time and money
I won’t care either way TBH. Once I’m dead I won’t care about anything anymore. The living ca. do whatever the heck they want with my remains as I won’t be attached to them anymore.
Because it’s a stupid waste of money for a hunk of dead meat
I’m having a Party 🎉
Because that would imply I would die
Because they’re expensive, and I’m going to be too dead to enjoy it
Funerals are creepy and I don’t agree with them. Burn me up and spread me in the garden fr
Having nobody show up is not something that has to happen even after I die lol.
Because I don’t plan on dying.
I told my family I want my organs donated and whatever is left over can be donated to science.
It’s financially irresponsible. Burn my body like the kings of old.
Same reason as my dad, it’s so expensive my money is better spent on being left for my family. My dad asked only that we have a dinner in his honor so we went to a fancy restaurant and spent $500 on dinner for seven of us: his three sons, his wife (our mother), and his three daughters-in-law, Plus a Happy meal from McDonald’s for his only grandchild my son who stayed at home with my aunt while we went out for our fancy dinner
Why waste money.
I’ll be dead. What do I care
Simple. I am not dead. yet.
Because who the fuck do you think you are?
Because I’d rather not die.
Because I’m going to have a Fun-eral. Basically a funeral but instead of it being about you it more like a party but with your body just kinda in the corner watching over everyone. That way people have one last moment of fun because of me
I don’t want a penny to be spent out of my families pocket and I plan on spending every penny in mine before I pass lol
Being becong frozen and shaken to pieces and turned into fertaliser for my own little personal grave tree just seems like a nice way to give back to the world everything I took while alive.
I’d rather have a celebration of life.
I don’t care. I’ll be dead and I won’t care and I don’t think anyone else will care that much
I do want a funeral in my church with the music and readings that I’ve selected. It’s the wake (viewing) that I don’t want. I’m going to be cremated because I don’t want a bunch of people sitting around the funeral parlor for hours looking at my corpse and talking about me.
Because every funeral I’ve been to of a totally not-religion (even anti-religious) person, they die and then their funeral is FULL of religion crap, and even has priests and shit. Like I know for a fact the person would be ENRAGED by this, and I always say NO RELIGION and especially NO PRIEST at my funeral, but I feel like once I die everyone will just do it anyway because “it’s normal”.
My mom didn’t want one because she hated going to them. My family followed her wishes. Over the years, we discovered that funerals are good at accelerating the grieving process. Otherwise, you just stuff that stuff down and it slowly trickles out over the course of several years.
I keep seeing everyone saying waste of money or boring but for me they’re horrible. The first funeral I went to was at 20 and it was my mom and all I wanted to do was collapse on the floor and cry. I didn’t care about the people or their well wishes or the service and none of it made me feel better. So yeah. I think the whole thing was just horrible. Every funeral after reminds me of the first. I think if anything a funeral should be for immediate family and take ten minutes tops.
What a waste of fucking money. Im gone, get over it.
I’ve never seen anyone get any benefit from any of the funerals I have attended. Except maybe some very religious people who do get some sort of experience they seem to benefit from. But no family of mine who would still be alive at my time of death are religious.
I never understood the point, and I still don’t. I guess for some it gives closure, for me it just makes it worse. I want to be cremated and that’s it, no funeral, no service, no nothing.
Seems like a waste of time
funerals are for the living, I obviously won’t be…
Because it’s a colossal waste of money, and that entire industry is predatory and fucking disgusting.
Just don’t. I think it’s strange and morbid.
I want my body to be donated to a university. I love the idea of some college students looking at my joints or dissecting me and thinking ‘’Damn, how’d she do THAT?’’
No one would come to it so why bother having one. They don’t visit now, they sure as hell won’t do it when I’m dead. There’s no one who would miss me outside of my spouse so it’s not like there’s going to be a huge get together of people reminiscing about me.
I’m in the process of pre arranging/ pre paying for it. Cremation, no fancy casket, no wake, no services. No plot in a cemetery.
Burring someone in the ground so you can visit their decaying body seems strange to me.
Because I paid for my grandma’s. Got paid back by her estate but it was expensive enough that my mom and I agreed to cremation for both of us. No need for a funeral.
I don’t care what my family does to feel better after I die. What I do want is some of my ashes scattered in some very specific places.
Social anxiety. I hate being the center of attention
1- APPARENTLY… Viking funerals are illegal (according to my wife)…
2- I’m doubtful the turnout would justify the cost. Aside from a very small circle, I don’t need a gathering of people pretending they miss me when they’re nowhere to be found while I draw breath.
My kin are so southern, my mom tried to get me dates at a family reunion (true story). In Kentucky, funerals are judged like a talent show. Whoever makes the biggest scene (screaming, throwing themselves on the casket, etc…) that’s who loved the deceased the most. Fuck that shit. I am not putting myself and my loved ones through that hell.
I don’t want my wife and kids spending a bunch of money to chuck me in the clay.
Just throw me in the fire or roll me out of the car while driving down the road, I honestly could care less, I will be long gone by then.
Have a wake instead. Everybody can get drunk and lie about what a good person I was.
I’m not dead yet…
Too expensive.
I’d rather have my family have that money to go on vacation or do something nice for themselves. To hopefully ease them of the pain of loss by keeping them busy.
Had to spend over £6,000 for our grandad’s headstone and it wasn’t even all that fancy. Just his full name and dates, that’s all, and for that price that’s crazy. Nevermind all the other costs.
Because nobody will show up. lol
My parents are donating their bodies to the medical school for the cadaver program. I’ll probably end up doing the same.
Because I’m not this crude matter.
Because it’s expensive. I also doubt many people will come(I’m not unfriendly. Just super shy and don’t have any friends) and I’ve always hated being the center of attention.
Because I don’t want my family watching the vultures pick me clean.
Waste of money.
Like so many others, I don’t want a financial burden on my family. Throw me in the dump for all I care. Just make sure you bust out the good liquor for your celebration of my life, especially if the means in which I died was fuckin’ dumb.
I don’t see the point, it’s a waste of money just throw me in the ground or if it’s legal when I die then turn me into compost
I say it over and over again bury me with a tree or burn me and spread my ashes in my homeland and current land I live in
My mom passed away last month and in her final days she made it clear she didn’t want a funeral. Her reasoning was the cost, but she also hated funerals herself. She was a very emotional person so she had a hard time. She decided she wanted a party instead. I ended up getting a hall and buying a ton of food and inviting her friends and family. For myself, I’d like to be thrown in a ditch with a end loader bucket of dirt dumped over me. The funeral industry is a scam that preys on grieving families. My aunt passed away in January and it cost $3k for a rental casket for the funeral because my aunt was being cremated.
Because funerals cost money and once I’m gone, I want to cost my family as little as possible. I tell them to donate me to science/medicine, have a service if they want, and don’t spend a dime more than absolutely necessary. I’m dead, I won’t know it. Ten minutes after the service, they won’t care if the casket was velvet lined, or if the urn was solid brass, or whatever shit they can upsell.
They’re sad and boring. I hate listening to long speeches, I don’t like wasting people’s time in general
>Why do you NOT want a funeral?
Aint nobody got the time or money for that nonsense. I encourage my friends/family have a hug, raise a toast and go on….
I want to be composted back into soil, in the Seattle area there is a place that will put you back as soil in Olympic National forest. I don’t want to be embalmed and slowly rot in a casket or turned to useless carbon ash. This way I get to keep going as part of a tree or a seed that will feed birds and squirrels. If it’s important to people that I knew they can come to forest to see me off or they can have soil to plant something at home.
Funerals are for the living. Both of my parents donated their bodies to science (as I intend to as well). For each of them we had a small get-together for friends and family.
For all the reasons mentioned, as well as the fact I hate being the centre of attention. It is for the same reason I hate birthday parties, except this time it will be 10x more emotional and dramatic. Although I am atheist, my family is Muslim so I’ll probably get a Muslim burial, which I honestly prefer to other types of funerals. Your body is wrapped in cloth and then buried just like that; no need for a casket, tomb lining, fancy tombstone or whatever else the funeral homes try selling you. It’s a relatively short affair as well in my experience, which is how funerals should be imo.
Waste of money. Just get fucked up together and tell stories about me lol
Because I won’t be there to enjoy it.
Too much money. Plus, I don’t want people that hate me showing up, pretending they cared
I don’t have strong feelings about it either way (I won’t care). But I used to work at various functions (funerals, bat mitzvahs, etc.) and one day my company assigned me to staff a celebration of life for an older woman who had terminal cancer. If I’m in a situation where I know it’s coming, I think that’s a really nice idea and would prefer that to a funeral.
I don’t want the attention. But in reality, I won’t have anyone when I pass, so there is a good reason.
Because it cost too damn much, but, we do own 1/4 of an acre in a cemetery already.
I’ve personally told everyone in my family that if they spend a dime after I die (excluding things that are legally required) I’ll haunt them and their descendants for eternity. It’s expensive and unnecessary.
It is too expensive for my loved ones. I feel like there are other ways that don’t cost all that much and can provide closure.
I don’t want a funeral, too much pressure to look good while doing absolutely nothing. Like, imagine lying there and everyone’s judging your final outfit. No thanks, just toss me in a forest and let the raccoons handle it.
My parents never had one. It cost a lot just to cremate them so they said to not spend any more than needed. I feel the same. Once I’m dead send me off as cheap as possible.
A spring loaded coffin and a calliope slowly playing Pop Goes the Weasel.
It’ll be embarrassing how few people show up
I’m still alive. So that is my reason.
I’m dead. Alive people can do whatever they want with my body.
I don’t know that I care either way. I’ll be dead and gone, so it really doesn’t involve me.
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