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Living FuneralsLiving Funerals A Living Funeral is an end of life celebration arranged while the person who is most probably suffering from a terminal illness or has a sense that their time is short, is still alive. Consequently, they are able to plan and control it so that it becomes a formal way of saying goodbye and allows those around to help celebrate a life. Living funerals or end of life celebrations are gathering in popularity and allow the person to celebrate their life with family and friends, thank and pay tribute to those they wish to acknowledge and maybe have a good party as well. One of the most famous living funerals was organised by Morrie Schwartz, a renowned American professor of sociology who died in 1995. His experience was made into a TV movie starring Jack Lemmon in 1999, which coincidentally was the last role he played before his own death. If any of our visitors have been to an living funeral or are planning one of their own, we would be very interested to hear your thoughts. Leave a message for our visitor's forum or contact us on ifishoulddieweb@yahoo.co.uk We have just heard from Lindsay about the wonderful example of a living funeral below; "I run a busy pub in with a function room and cater regularly for funerals. Our most notable living funeral was for one of our regulars who had been using the pub for 35 years. It was our first and I was a little apprehensive but my fears were unfounded as I have never seen a more uplifting event. The gentleman had terminal cancer and in fact died two weeks later. Everyone he had invited came and more besides, he had a guest book that all signed and he invited them to note any thoughts they had during the evening in it. This he read and re-read for a week afterwards, it then passed to his family who copied it and put the original in his coffin. He had throat cancer and couldn't speak so he had a note pad on which he corresponded and the strange thing was that people were writing back their replies to him even though there was nothing wrong with his hearing. The family have treasured this. He also wrote a message to each of them in his guest book and these were read out at the funeral. It was a wonderful end for a lovely man and I recommend that anyone who wants friend and family to know how they feel should do the same. Everyone remembered him smiling and laughing and not how he was at the last. Lindsay" March 2008 |
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