Sail on Bunky.
Wonder what his last joke was?
The thing that pisses me off is that some people live as though there is no tomorrow and live longer than those quiet, well-behaved, non-sinning pillars of the community who have built this country we know.?ÿ I guess the good die young, so some of us have to live forever to make up for it.
Hell of an Obit. Can??t wait to see the tombstone.
That movie clip illustrates something I've complained about regarding burials.?ÿ With only one exception in my memory of the ones I've attended, people go home before the job is done. Maybe even before the coffin is lowered from the rack mechanism.?ÿ If they are going to bury me, I want people to stick around until the job is finished.?ÿ
The exception was burying an urn of ashes.?ÿ There all the grandkids of the deceased put a flower in the box containing the urn, and then the box was covered with dirt.?ÿ I wanted to congratulate those responsible, and mentioned it to the funeral director.
What's your experience?
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Side note: I don't think that coffin in the movie weighed a normal amount.?ÿ I've been a pallbearer.?ÿ Most people would have trouble lowering that weight in the postures seen here.?ÿ That's why there is a mechanism for it.
I was a pallbearer for my former mother-in-law.?ÿ All 300 lbs of her.?ÿ Add in the coffin and we are talking some serious strain on all eight of us holding on to it and trying not to slip on the slushy snow.?ÿ One slip would have ended up being the cause of seven other bad reactions, very quickly.
That little trick of lowering the coffin with ropes would not have worked at all.
