Is disco appropriate for a memorial service?

[invisibleman]

despite your consternation at the musical choice, it sounds like she would have loved that.

Well I have never known her to play Sister Sledge. Apparently, she did love that tune. (Who knows...) So they played it at the end of her memorial service.

that being said, it was HER service so if that was a song she fancied played with people she loved as her surrogate family, then i say good for her.

I agree.


the best funerals and services i have been to have been of deceased bon vivants. their only instructions were to have spectacular party with great music, fantastic food and unending alcohol. they wanted their funerals/memorial services to reflect them as they were in life which i think is the most appropriate way go about such an event.

I agree. I guess that her memorial service was a reflection of her life. Except for the shitty boombox. My lesbian friend had an amazing stereo system. Gurlfriend even had a really, really nice television set.

 

[TomCat84]

despite your consternation at the musical choice, it sounds like she would have loved that. that being said, it was HER service so if that was a song she fancied played with people she loved as her surrogate family, then i say good for her.
the best funerals and services i have been to have been of deceased bon vivants. their only instructions were to have spectacular party with great music, fantastic food and unending alcohol. they wanted their funerals/memorial services to reflect them as they were in life which i think is the most appropriate way go about such an event.

I've always been bemused/fascinated by the old time New Orleans/Creole funerals. They march slow and mournfully to the gravesite, then sing, dance, whatever when going away. Cultural differences rock!

 

[invisibleman]

I've always been bemused/fascinated by the old time New Orleans/Creole funerals. They march slow and mournfully to the gravesite, then sing, dance, whatever when going away. Cultural differences rock!

Yeah. Nawlins culture has it right somehow. I wish that I could be like that somehow after funerals. Maybe they are happy because they are getting crawfish etoufee, crab boil, bouillabaisse, fried gator, beer, whiskey and red beans n rice at the reception.

 

[petite]

I bow to the wishes of the family and friends who organized the funeral. If they were close enough to the deceased to be a decision maker and these are their choices, then I accept them without question. Funerals are to help the living attain closure, and whatever is appropriate to them is appropriate to me.

I feel like being judgmental at a moment like that may be in bad taste with regards to the spirit which a person should have when one attends such a personal and heartbreaking ceremony. I personally feel that casting a judgmental eye at a time like that is definitely inappropriate.

 

[sbat]

Der Kommissar by Falco (or the After the Fire version)

 

[midlifebear]

Yeah, KC and the Sunshine Band whailing "Shake your booty!" as the executor of my will and trust pushes the On button at the crematorium. Sure, why not?