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Phentex

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11. SAME thing happened to us!

Reply to csziggy (Reply #10)

Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:41 AM

Apr 2015

Good advice on what NOT to do!

When one brother passed, the service was so impersonal and frankly way too religious compared to how my brother was living at the time. He barely got the name right!

Then another brother passed, and it was whole different story. This priest knew my brother, demons and all, and gave a service that DID have us laughing and crying because it was so him, the human him. Hard to say you can enjoy a memorial service, but it's for the living after all, and we actually felt better.

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When her time comes, my lovely mother wants me to write a 'funny' obit for her [View all] fleur-de-lisa Apr 2015 OP

Is there some habit of hers that she does to excess? Always makes too many biscuits? PoliticAverse Apr 2015 #1

Have you seen this obit? mnhtnbb Apr 2015 #2

This post inspired me to write my own... Phentex Apr 2015 #6

oh my. mnhtnbb Apr 2015 #9

Listen to Garrison Keillor NJCher Apr 2015 #3

Hmmm... pipi_k Apr 2015 #4

is she looking for a smile or guffaws dembotoz Apr 2015 #5

What are her hobbies and interests? Phentex Apr 2015 #7

Interview her as if you hadn't met her before. DeSwiss Apr 2015 #8

After my Dad died, we talked with his minister and shared stories about Dad csziggy Apr 2015 #10

SAME thing happened to us! Phentex Apr 2015 #11

Condolences on your losses csziggy Apr 2015 #13

Same to you. We are in the process of changing our wills because Phentex Apr 2015 #14

My sister and her husband have pre-purchased their plans csziggy Apr 2015 #15

Something else I just remembered pipi_k Apr 2015 #12