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Designed to encourage more creativity in funerals. Funeral Directors have fallen into a rut over the past century.
The plots always the same: Speeches, slow car chase, ceremony, gathering. How funerals are still getting made using this dried up formula is beyond me.
I mean whoever directed
Timothy Leary's funeral was a genius, flipping the whole funeral idea on its head he shoots the star into space instead of burying him in the earth.
Big budget funerals, like those for royalty should try to outdo each other. I'm hoping to see the pyrammid come back into style. If people really loved Princess Diana I'm sure they wouldn't mind hauling 50 tonne blocks of stone about.
I mean what kind of hack director put her on a small island in the middle of a duck pond? Obviously a director who wasn't out to win a Stiffy - The Funeral Directors ultimate award
These guys are not likely to win.
http://skybusiness....ervice/thirteen.htm
[angel, Jun 13 2001]
(?) This person has won the "Funeral Direcor of the Year" award
http://www.hamilton...org/merryburley.htm
[hippo, Jun 13 2001]
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There's a slightly sick irony in here that I almost like. |
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Btw, try a Dixieland Jazz funeral. Very nice production values, and for ordinary people, too. |
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And, of course, it's good for business: |
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"How do I know Fred will get a fitting ceremony?"
"Madam, I've got a Stiffy." |
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Or a Viking funeral, like King Arthur's at the end of "First Knight." Doesn't get much better than that. |
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Well...the Funeral Company i used to work for was never on time...so on many occasions the whole Funeral procession hit the highway at 70mph. The local P.D complained on several occasions. Got some real strange looks from the people we overtook though..... |
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This is an outstanding idea, and I wish I had come across it earlier. As I don't think I'll be wealthy enough to rate a pyramid, I think I'd like something with a cardboard coffin and a variety of seeds. |
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Alice Cooper has the right idea for the Stiffy..
"Cold Ethel...cold cold ethel!" |
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They have a hard job, they deserve an award. |
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How have I not seen this before? Brilliantly dark humour and very well written too. Considerable amounts of pastry for the now departed [sputnik]. |
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Not sure I want to be buried by a bloke with a Stiffy, but neither do I want to depart in a long black Volvo. |
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