February 29, 2024 • 14 mins
Are there unspoken rules for behavior at a funeral homes?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm Elvis fifteen Morning show, and let's do. It's a
fifteen minute morning show podcast. We've got lots to discuss today.
I don't know where do we start. Well, I'll tell
you what we have. Scottie be here in the Serial
(00:25):
Killers podcast booth, and there's Danielle and Gandhi, and there's
Straight and eight and I see Garret and Scarys somewhere here.
Oh there you are. Hey, it's gotty. All right, Okay,
let's start with let's start with the wake, Yeah, shall we?
So a really good friend of ours, her mother passed away,
(00:49):
really a really wonderful friend, someone we loved and we
have loved for many years. And so there was a
way yesterday. Unfortunately I could not make it, but you
guys all went. But I'm hearing all these stories, some
wake stories.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm kind of getting like wake etiquette shamed. So I
have a lot of questions about it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, let's go now.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
One, when you walk in, you just immediately you're supposed
to go to the family, give them your condolences, and
then move along.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Approach the cast, say in prayer at the casket. But
some people don't do that, Okay, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't. I don't do that. But now that I
know that, you're supposed.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
To do okay, Yeah, yeah, I don't do caskets either.
You're not alone.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, something about it makes me feel weird. But we
I don't just go in and say hey and then
walk out. So a bunch of us were there yesterday
and we stayed for well over an hour, and we
saw a lot of people that we kind of haven't
seen in a long time. So the way the chairs
are set up are in rows, and then there was
one row against the side of the wall, so everybody
sits down, but if you want to talk to each other,
(01:47):
it's a weird way to sit. So I started moving
some of the chairs so that we could see each other,
and Scary freaked.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The fuck out.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
He was like, no, don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The chair, this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
He wouldn't say.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
There are certain moves I believe in funeral home etiquette,
and I just think that turning your back on.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The deceased is that nobody did that?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Well, yeah, when you turn a chair the opposite direction
you're facing now, you're facing the wall, you're facing the back.
You're not facing the actual main attraction, which is the
the body.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We were facing the main attraction. We were facing the
sides of people's faces. So we just turned those chairs.
So now we're facing you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So so the person who's in the casket is the
main attraction?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You, Okay, there's two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's like the circus.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No, it's not an attraction like that. It's the nuts
selling peanuts and pott What is it?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What are you saying?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What I'm saying is when you show up at a
wake of funeral or whatever, you know you basically.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Are going for one of two reasons.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Either you knew the person who passed, or you didn't
know the person who passed, but you know the person
who's living the family, right, So it's either or both,
which is most in most cases both.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So that's why when you.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Go in, you have to stand in an orderly line,
and it's like a kind of a receiving line, and they,
you know, you offer your condolences to the to the living,
and then maybe if you want to, you can pass
by the coffin and say a thing or.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Two, or maybe not, because that's not your thing.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
That's fine too, But the whole reason to be there
is the acknowledgment of those two two things, and and so,
which I did. I feel like right, But then you
file to the back to select other people through, which
is what we did. But and I do believe some
light talking amongst yourselves is acceptable. I don't think it's
acceptable to pull out your phone, uh I for whatever reason.
(03:41):
And I don't think you should turn the chairs and
like make a semicircle of like as if you're in
a coffee clatch with your friends.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I just to me, that's a little too casual.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I turned my chair too.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
The problem was that there was not enough chairs where
we were all sitting, and you guys weren't sitting in
the middle section. So we were like, well, if we
want to sit together and like catch up and talk,
because I feel like at awake, you're celebrating the life
of the person that's there, you're not there too, Like, yeah,
you're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Be sad, of course, and the people who lost this.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Person is sad and given conlens right, but you want
to be You want to celebrate life and tell stories
and and and share with each other.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
So I would rather be a place of happiness and
and you know, talking amongst yourself and celebration.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But how much happy is too happy?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Right, So here's what we let meet?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
May I address that? So at both of my parents' ways,
we were doing shots, We were doing we were singing songs,
people were telling jokes that were my dad's favorite jokes. Okay,
I mean and all and all along he was over
there in the corner, the main attraction, the main attraction.
(04:55):
So you know, my my father, We we just acknowledged
my father was the main attraction, but not in the
form of a body and a coffin. And so look,
it's different for everyone.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I'm sure that just kind of happened to a friend
of mine that I went to high school with unfortunately
passed away a week or so ago, and after the funeral,
we all just got together at a bar and got
drunk and told great stories and showed pictures and were laughing.
And that's pretty much how he would have wanted it
to be. So, you know, we were honoring him by
doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But what's scary saying is there's protocol at the wake man.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
When I touched that chair, you would have thought that
I shot him. In the leg, he trays up.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He wouldn't sit down.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Danielle did because she knew that it wasn't anything crazy.
But this is my question. Now, Scary wouldn't sit, but
he was talking to a bunch of people who had
formed a complete circle and actually had turned their back
on the casket. So how is it different to do
it standing up versus sitting down?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I don't know, I I so when I've gone.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
A couch, Nate, I didn't move a couch.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
No, I'm saying, wait, I think the chairs, having been
to a lot of these when I was younger, the
chairs are reserved for people that want to like pay
their respects and maybe think of things, you know, they
want to reflect on this person. And then like when
I would go, there would be like another room where
you would go congregate outside of the viewing room. Okay,
(06:15):
so that's you know, there would always be people like
the circle of people in that other room, at least
growing up in there, there's always that other room where
there'd be the group of people, but that room was
always kind of quiet for people reflecting on them.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Could we all just agree that there there really are
no set rules other than other than doing you know,
like you know, cartwheels down this central.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
What I would like to say is I would love
to just change everything with these you know, because it's
it's so.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Stayed and drag study and drafts, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
And I feel like it's because a lot of these
funeral homes are inherited from their parents, and they're just
doing it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The same way their parents have done for the last
seventy five years. Let's change it up. Let's celebrate this person. Well,
of course, as long as it's okay with the family
or the person. I mean, it's it's a different thing
for different people, right, you know. Let's let's take our
really good friend who's whose mother passed away. Let's take
her into account here. She's fun, she's great. She she
(07:21):
she understands the magic of people congregating and and the
energy that comes from that. So, you know, I wasn't
there but scary. I don't know if you should be
like yelling at gone.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I was just I was more. I was more not
not yelling. It was more of a sense of like,
oh my god, this is and it's only because that's
what I've known and learned. But you're everyone is different
for everyone, and I shouldn't put it all the.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
P and I was very loud in there too, every
because everybody was talking. So we're all talking, we're all laughing,
and for a moment I stopped because I heard myself
laugh and I.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Was like, oh but and I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Everybody's loud in here because they're just talking and celebrating.
And I think that's how the person that we're talking
about would.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Want it for her.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Sure my funeral, I want to be put into a pose.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Like sitting with the arm like this, so you could
sit down next to me and get that last on
the bench.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I want you want to be you want to be
in the Ronald McDonald pose. I'm glad you brought this
up because my my next thought here for the podcast was,
let's all just be very clear right here on the
record what it is we want. So you want you
to be posed on a bench? Okay? Do you think it? Okay? Question? Nothing?
(08:44):
It matters because it's your funeral. Maybe do you won't
think anyone else wants you posing on a bench?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Take that picture?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Gandhi, what do you want? What do you want? Gandhi?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I want no viewing once I'm dead, just let it go.
Everyone to show up and have a party and tell
ridiculous stories and enjoy yourself and celebrate what was.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So maybe not a funeral home. Maybe some of the venue,
like a club at the club, maybe the taco place. Yes,
at the top greenes. What about you, Daniel, what do
you want?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I go back and forth.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
So first I want to be because I'm very traditional
and I know how my family does it. So at
first I'm like, you know what, I want to look
fabulous when they lay me out.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I want to look.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Better than I've ever looked, like they want fancy outfit whatever,
and I want everyone to come. And then part of
me is like creamate me and put my ashes at
the Haunted Mansion in Walt Disney.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There you go. So I go back and forth about
what about the gathering? What about the gathering?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
The gathering?
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Oh no, I want you guys to tell stories and
reminisce about the good times and.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
How much fun we had. And I don't want somber.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Really sung out the tocsins.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What about you want? You want the chairs against the wall?
No one goes, it's not about you should have at
a in a theater where everything's bolted down. Actually I
want to kind of and you're coughing on the stage
with a fifty yard line fifty yard line at a
at a football stadium.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I am with Nate on the whole switching it up thing,
because I've said it for years. I'm like, why is this?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Every Every funeral home looks like it's stuck in nineteen
fifty two.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So in my mind, I'd like it in a nightclub,
I want to be I want to red camp and
everyone walks.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
In the I want no hold on. I want to
be on a catwalk.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I want a disco ball, and I want music.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Be a door man. Sorry you can't.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
He's still going to get an appearance fee for that too.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He wants those red ropes arounds around.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yes, what about you, Garrett? What do you want?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
I want to do like I do at normal parties.
I want to irin irish exsit out of my own funeral.
So so you show up and like, have you seen
Garrett O? Yeah, I saw him a few minutes ago,
but I'm gone, And then you end up partying like.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
That and Scotti Bee Scotty Bee.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I just I want mine to be like a bar mitzvah,
like I want to be up standing on the You
know what, that's interesting if they put posts on and
people can lift the coffin the Jews keep it closed
so I won't fly out, but I think that'd be
(11:15):
great if they lifted me up like I.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Was in a chair.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's amazing, terrible.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I don't want anything somber.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Everything. It should be fun.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
It's so that it is so uncomfortable going to a
funeral because you don't know how to act well.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I was saying, that's gandhi last night because I went
up to our friend's brother who I'd never met before,
and I'm sure I said one or two things that
were not appropriate. And then at the end I apologize
to her and I go, could you just tell your
brother that he's fine, because I just I get nervous.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I don't know what to say. I don't know what
to do. Everybody's like, oh, it's so nice to see you, and.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Then you think, yeah, but it's really not nice to
see you in these sir brother right, you just.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Don't want what to say.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I talked to Scary every day. We're very close, but
at the at the funeral, I'm like, so sorry, man,
and I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's all you have to see. That's the thing. If
you're asking, I don't If you're saying I don't know
how to act, and don't act, just just be there
and say, hey, just thinking about you. I'm so glad
I could be here to see you today. And that's
it me. Yes, I want to be in a really
beautiful ash tray. I want everyone, my favorite people come
by and just sneeze on me and spread. I don't know. No,
(12:20):
it needs to be a party. It needs to be
it needs to be a celebration because you know, we
bring so much joy into each other's lives. Why do
we have to stop after we croak? Hello, I will
be leaving some money behind to help fund a nice party.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's good.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Are any of you or yes?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Yeah, So here's my question. If no one wants mine
take all of your stuff? Does that include your eyes
and stuff? So a lot of us? Then if that's
the case, if we are organ donors, then you probably
couldn't even.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Have an a, glasses, sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
No, it's not like they PLoP your hole.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
They don't take your ball.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah yeah, no, no, no, yeah, you don't want you don't
you don't want those open?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Still do all sorts of tricks to make you look it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I think Danielle is still alive.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now that we're talking about it. If there ever is
a viewing of my body, which I never want, I
would like my eyes to be open, yes, yes, one
last time to forget.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I want to be in the casket, but like when
they're doing the prayers, I want there to be like
a lever where I start to raise up out.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you see that thing on inside?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I think it's Instagram or whatever and it says at
my funeral. I want somebody to take my cell phone
text all my friends, Hey, it's dark in here.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Could somebody please.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Get me.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Fun from the grave and that lever you're talking about
on your body and your casket, Nate, I wish we
had one today. That's happening all right? Well, I mean
we've we've had a lot of fun with funerals. Are
we all done?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Absolutely? All right, let's get out of here, my dea.
The fifteen Minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm Elvis fifteen Morning show, and let's do. It's a
fifteen minute morning show podcast. We've got lots to discuss today.
I don't know where do we start. Well, I'll tell
you what we have. Scottie be here in the Serial
(00:25):
Killers podcast booth, and there's Danielle and Gandhi, and there's
Straight and eight and I see Garret and Scarys somewhere here.
Oh there you are. Hey, it's gotty. All right, Okay,
let's start with let's start with the wake, Yeah, shall we?
So a really good friend of ours, her mother passed away,
(00:49):
really a really wonderful friend, someone we loved and we
have loved for many years. And so there was a
way yesterday. Unfortunately I could not make it, but you
guys all went. But I'm hearing all these stories, some
wake stories.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm kind of getting like wake etiquette shamed. So I
have a lot of questions about it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, let's go now.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
One, when you walk in, you just immediately you're supposed
to go to the family, give them your condolences, and
then move along.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Approach the cast, say in prayer at the casket. But
some people don't do that, Okay, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't. I don't do that. But now that I
know that, you're supposed.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
To do okay, Yeah, yeah, I don't do caskets either.
You're not alone.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, something about it makes me feel weird. But we
I don't just go in and say hey and then
walk out. So a bunch of us were there yesterday
and we stayed for well over an hour, and we
saw a lot of people that we kind of haven't
seen in a long time. So the way the chairs
are set up are in rows, and then there was
one row against the side of the wall, so everybody
sits down, but if you want to talk to each other,
(01:47):
it's a weird way to sit. So I started moving
some of the chairs so that we could see each other,
and Scary freaked.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The fuck out.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
He was like, no, don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The chair, this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
He wouldn't say.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
There are certain moves I believe in funeral home etiquette,
and I just think that turning your back on.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The deceased is that nobody did that?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Well, yeah, when you turn a chair the opposite direction
you're facing now, you're facing the wall, you're facing the back.
You're not facing the actual main attraction, which is the
the body.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We were facing the main attraction. We were facing the
sides of people's faces. So we just turned those chairs.
So now we're facing you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So so the person who's in the casket is the
main attraction?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You, Okay, there's two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's like the circus.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No, it's not an attraction like that. It's the nuts
selling peanuts and pott What is it?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What are you saying?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What I'm saying is when you show up at a
wake of funeral or whatever, you know you basically.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Are going for one of two reasons.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Either you knew the person who passed, or you didn't
know the person who passed, but you know the person
who's living the family, right, So it's either or both,
which is most in most cases both.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So that's why when you.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Go in, you have to stand in an orderly line,
and it's like a kind of a receiving line, and they,
you know, you offer your condolences to the to the living,
and then maybe if you want to, you can pass
by the coffin and say a thing or.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Two, or maybe not, because that's not your thing.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
That's fine too, But the whole reason to be there
is the acknowledgment of those two two things, and and so,
which I did. I feel like right, But then you
file to the back to select other people through, which
is what we did. But and I do believe some
light talking amongst yourselves is acceptable. I don't think it's
acceptable to pull out your phone, uh I for whatever reason.
(03:41):
And I don't think you should turn the chairs and
like make a semicircle of like as if you're in
a coffee clatch with your friends.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I just to me, that's a little too casual.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I turned my chair too.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
The problem was that there was not enough chairs where
we were all sitting, and you guys weren't sitting in
the middle section. So we were like, well, if we
want to sit together and like catch up and talk,
because I feel like at awake, you're celebrating the life
of the person that's there, you're not there too, Like, yeah,
you're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Be sad, of course, and the people who lost this.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Person is sad and given conlens right, but you want
to be You want to celebrate life and tell stories
and and and share with each other.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
So I would rather be a place of happiness and
and you know, talking amongst yourself and celebration.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But how much happy is too happy?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Right, So here's what we let meet?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
May I address that? So at both of my parents' ways,
we were doing shots, We were doing we were singing songs,
people were telling jokes that were my dad's favorite jokes. Okay,
I mean and all and all along he was over
there in the corner, the main attraction, the main attraction.
(04:55):
So you know, my my father, We we just acknowledged
my father was the main attraction, but not in the
form of a body and a coffin. And so look,
it's different for everyone.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I'm sure that just kind of happened to a friend
of mine that I went to high school with unfortunately
passed away a week or so ago, and after the funeral,
we all just got together at a bar and got
drunk and told great stories and showed pictures and were laughing.
And that's pretty much how he would have wanted it
to be. So, you know, we were honoring him by
doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But what's scary saying is there's protocol at the wake man.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
When I touched that chair, you would have thought that
I shot him. In the leg, he trays up.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He wouldn't sit down.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Danielle did because she knew that it wasn't anything crazy.
But this is my question. Now, Scary wouldn't sit, but
he was talking to a bunch of people who had
formed a complete circle and actually had turned their back
on the casket. So how is it different to do
it standing up versus sitting down?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I don't know, I I so when I've gone.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
A couch, Nate, I didn't move a couch.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
No, I'm saying, wait, I think the chairs, having been
to a lot of these when I was younger, the
chairs are reserved for people that want to like pay
their respects and maybe think of things, you know, they
want to reflect on this person. And then like when
I would go, there would be like another room where
you would go congregate outside of the viewing room. Okay,
(06:15):
so that's you know, there would always be people like
the circle of people in that other room, at least
growing up in there, there's always that other room where
there'd be the group of people, but that room was
always kind of quiet for people reflecting on them.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Could we all just agree that there there really are
no set rules other than other than doing you know,
like you know, cartwheels down this central.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
What I would like to say is I would love
to just change everything with these you know, because it's
it's so.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Stayed and drag study and drafts, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
And I feel like it's because a lot of these
funeral homes are inherited from their parents, and they're just
doing it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The same way their parents have done for the last
seventy five years. Let's change it up. Let's celebrate this person. Well,
of course, as long as it's okay with the family
or the person. I mean, it's it's a different thing
for different people, right, you know. Let's let's take our
really good friend who's whose mother passed away. Let's take
her into account here. She's fun, she's great. She she
(07:21):
she understands the magic of people congregating and and the
energy that comes from that. So, you know, I wasn't
there but scary. I don't know if you should be
like yelling at gone.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I was just I was more. I was more not
not yelling. It was more of a sense of like,
oh my god, this is and it's only because that's
what I've known and learned. But you're everyone is different
for everyone, and I shouldn't put it all the.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
P and I was very loud in there too, every
because everybody was talking. So we're all talking, we're all laughing,
and for a moment I stopped because I heard myself
laugh and I.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Was like, oh but and I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Everybody's loud in here because they're just talking and celebrating.
And I think that's how the person that we're talking
about would.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Want it for her.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Sure my funeral, I want to be put into a pose.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Like sitting with the arm like this, so you could
sit down next to me and get that last on
the bench.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I want you want to be you want to be
in the Ronald McDonald pose. I'm glad you brought this
up because my my next thought here for the podcast was,
let's all just be very clear right here on the
record what it is we want. So you want you
to be posed on a bench? Okay? Do you think it? Okay? Question? Nothing?
(08:44):
It matters because it's your funeral. Maybe do you won't
think anyone else wants you posing on a bench?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Take that picture?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Gandhi, what do you want? What do you want? Gandhi?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I want no viewing once I'm dead, just let it go.
Everyone to show up and have a party and tell
ridiculous stories and enjoy yourself and celebrate what was.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So maybe not a funeral home. Maybe some of the venue,
like a club at the club, maybe the taco place. Yes,
at the top greenes. What about you, Daniel, what do
you want?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I go back and forth.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
So first I want to be because I'm very traditional
and I know how my family does it. So at
first I'm like, you know what, I want to look
fabulous when they lay me out.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I want to look.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Better than I've ever looked, like they want fancy outfit whatever,
and I want everyone to come. And then part of
me is like creamate me and put my ashes at
the Haunted Mansion in Walt Disney.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There you go. So I go back and forth about
what about the gathering? What about the gathering?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
The gathering?
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Oh no, I want you guys to tell stories and
reminisce about the good times and.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
How much fun we had. And I don't want somber.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Really sung out the tocsins.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What about you want? You want the chairs against the wall?
No one goes, it's not about you should have at
a in a theater where everything's bolted down. Actually I
want to kind of and you're coughing on the stage
with a fifty yard line fifty yard line at a
at a football stadium.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I am with Nate on the whole switching it up thing,
because I've said it for years. I'm like, why is this?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Every Every funeral home looks like it's stuck in nineteen
fifty two.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So in my mind, I'd like it in a nightclub,
I want to be I want to red camp and
everyone walks.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
In the I want no hold on. I want to
be on a catwalk.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I want a disco ball, and I want music.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Be a door man. Sorry you can't.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
He's still going to get an appearance fee for that too.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He wants those red ropes arounds around.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yes, what about you, Garrett? What do you want?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
I want to do like I do at normal parties.
I want to irin irish exsit out of my own funeral.
So so you show up and like, have you seen
Garrett O? Yeah, I saw him a few minutes ago,
but I'm gone, And then you end up partying like.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
That and Scotti Bee Scotty Bee.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I just I want mine to be like a bar mitzvah,
like I want to be up standing on the You
know what, that's interesting if they put posts on and
people can lift the coffin the Jews keep it closed
so I won't fly out, but I think that'd be
(11:15):
great if they lifted me up like I.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Was in a chair.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's amazing, terrible.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I don't want anything somber.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Everything. It should be fun.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
It's so that it is so uncomfortable going to a
funeral because you don't know how to act well.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I was saying, that's gandhi last night because I went
up to our friend's brother who I'd never met before,
and I'm sure I said one or two things that
were not appropriate. And then at the end I apologize
to her and I go, could you just tell your
brother that he's fine, because I just I get nervous.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I don't know what to say. I don't know what
to do. Everybody's like, oh, it's so nice to see you, and.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Then you think, yeah, but it's really not nice to
see you in these sir brother right, you just.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Don't want what to say.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I talked to Scary every day. We're very close, but
at the at the funeral, I'm like, so sorry, man,
and I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's all you have to see. That's the thing. If
you're asking, I don't If you're saying I don't know
how to act, and don't act, just just be there
and say, hey, just thinking about you. I'm so glad
I could be here to see you today. And that's
it me. Yes, I want to be in a really
beautiful ash tray. I want everyone, my favorite people come
by and just sneeze on me and spread. I don't know. No,
(12:20):
it needs to be a party. It needs to be
it needs to be a celebration because you know, we
bring so much joy into each other's lives. Why do
we have to stop after we croak? Hello, I will
be leaving some money behind to help fund a nice party.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's good.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Are any of you or yes?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Yeah, So here's my question. If no one wants mine
take all of your stuff? Does that include your eyes
and stuff? So a lot of us? Then if that's
the case, if we are organ donors, then you probably
couldn't even.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Have an a, glasses, sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
No, it's not like they PLoP your hole.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
They don't take your ball.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah yeah, no, no, no, yeah, you don't want you don't
you don't want those open?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Still do all sorts of tricks to make you look it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I think Danielle is still alive.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now that we're talking about it. If there ever is
a viewing of my body, which I never want, I
would like my eyes to be open, yes, yes, one
last time to forget.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I want to be in the casket, but like when
they're doing the prayers, I want there to be like
a lever where I start to raise up out.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you see that thing on inside?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I think it's Instagram or whatever and it says at
my funeral. I want somebody to take my cell phone
text all my friends, Hey, it's dark in here.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Could somebody please.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Get me.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Fun from the grave and that lever you're talking about
on your body and your casket, Nate, I wish we
had one today. That's happening all right? Well, I mean
we've we've had a lot of fun with funerals. Are
we all done?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Absolutely? All right, let's get out of here, my dea.
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