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In Victorian times in London, there was a special railway station taking funeral parties to Brookwood cemetery ("Six second-class returns and one single to Brookwood, please"), with special carriages for carrying the coffins. So, I thought, why not have...a roller-coaster funeral. Everyone loves roller-coasters,
so the mourners can have a happier memory of the dear-departed. Simply a funeral to die for.
The London Necropolis Railway
http://www.tbcs.org.uk/railway.htm
[coprocephalous, Apr 04 2005]
An unpleasant episode at Coney Island
http://www.answers..../topsy-the-elephant
[coprocephalous, Apr 04 2005]
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Good subtitle.
I'd like the hearse at my funeral to go out of control, plough through the crash barriers on the bridge and plunge into the chasm below in a ball of fire. Obviously it could be a remotely operated hearse to save on hearse drivers, but it would be a fitting way to go. |
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mine would probably get lost. |
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and when Great Uncle Arthur (age 88) comes to the funeral, well.... a double funeral is twice the fun. |
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You could have the actual coffin attached to a track. Install a loop over water, body drops out, instant burial at sea. |
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It would be vacationland for goth types. |
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Somehow I see a cemetery as an excellent addition to Coney Island. |
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I hope that name doesn't mean what I think it means. And if it does, then I hope it's metaphorical. |
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Or the coffin could make its way into a furnace for a quick and easy cremation |
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S'gonna be tough manoeuvring a coffin around that theme park ride queuing system.
[Moomintroll] Its a type of dinosaur, isn't it? |
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[abs] No, it isn't a dinosaur (that I'm aware of), and yes [moomintroll], it means what you think it does, and yes, it is metaphorical (I hope). |
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I don't know, there's a lot of dinosaurs out there. |
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You could have it set up like Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory and instead of oompa-loompas you'd have midget undertakers. They'd act out the whole embalming process with your dearly departed or dump them uncerimoniously into the furnace for those preferring cremation. |
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I think a water floon type ride would be better. You could just float the coffin amoung with the passenger 'logs'. |
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Will there be height and weight restrictions? |
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[I'd like to die like my grandfather:Quietly and in my sleep... and not in terror, screaming and thrashing like his other four passengers in his car.] |
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//You could have it set up like Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory// Great, now I'm imagining people being dumped into scalding pools of chocolate. |
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//Great, now I'm imagining people being dumped into scalding pools of chocolate//
And that's...a Bad Thing? |
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Just to check, is the idea for the mourners or the coffin (or the both) to get on the roller coaster? 'Cause that will have an impact on whether I post my Flaming Funeral Flume idea. |
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