Do you think that if you were to suddenly be offed, by accident or otherwise
say in the near future, that you would have a big gathering, or small, or
anything else? Accualy what would you like to have? Would you like to see
the person(s) who killed you proscuted? 

19 responses total.

93 scruples and 12 inbetween

I'd like to be left roting in the street.
I think the killer(s) should be hailed as saints.

I'd hold a big party, invite my killers, and get them potsed.
Then they'd be too drunk to kill me.

I'd expect a small-to-medium-sized gathering, depending on how much
publicity the matter received -- old friends/coworkers/whatever don't
come to something they don't hear about, after all.  (I was surprised 
at the number of people who cared enough to come to a baby shower for me, 
eight years ago, and a funeral/memorial service doesn't expect a gift)
I'd rather *not* have a packed edifice, but just enough really-supportive 
people to comfort my grieving family.  And I would want my killers to 
reform, whether prosecuted or not, and my family to be able to forgive them.

small gathering of people that WANT to be there.

killers....i don't know.

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I'd like some mid-sized arrangement with a bunch of my friends and family.
I wouldn't mind seeing the ones who "offed" me do some hard time.

It never occurred to me that "size of funeral" was anything there was 
control over since invitations are not issued.  I'd prefer that it were
held at a time when the folks who would want to be there could come.
I'd want my funeral to be a good reflection of the things I feel most
strongly about (not opinions but personal principles) so people would
be saying goodbye to who I really had been.
And good music -- lots of it.  

I'm already going to be dead, so I really don't care what kind of funeral,
or memorial service, or whatever I have.  I just want it to be something
that will be at least somewhat comforting to those who I will have left
behind.

I'm going to be cremated and sprinkled over the ocean.

I want o be buried with my Grandfather and the rest of the people who came over
on the boat.   he and my grandmother(who is still alive) have lots in the small
town called Irma.  the bad part is  the cemeratry is full

so what do I do if I can not be layed to rest where I want to be layed to
rest???

I want to be creamated. And I want my friends to roll up my ashes and
smoke me. As for the people who brought about my untimely death,
they should be beaten with a stick and made to live out the rest of
there pitiful lives in pain and torment...
                                       ...at my mom's house.

I would love to have a small party where the guests would feel free to laugh,
cry, get mad, call me names, etc., because this 'dignified silence' bit is for
the birds. Besides, It's ok to say how you really feel; I don't see why feeling
anything other than sad at a funeral is considered 'disgraceful'.

Anyone read Orson Scott Card's alien trilogy, w/ _Ender's Game_, _Speaker
for the Dead_, and _Xenocide_?  I think I might like a Speaker.  I'd like to
live my life in such a way that those who showed up would only be those who 
I really cared about and who really cared about me...but that there would
still be a packed house.

I'd just want in the event of my death by any means: organ donation, with
the unusuable parts cremated.

Thanks, I thought so, I,m ready for it. Anyway .......I had someone try to
murder me once and it was very hard to deal with because I did not know that
the person bore any dislike for me at all . As a matter of fact I was very
fond of the person and did not even know that the person knew I was alive
actually. Yes I would like them to be prosecuted. And executed. But would like
to know why they had tried to kill me I think before the trial or before I
died

I feel that if I died, anyone who knew me could come to my funneral.  I would
like for my killers to have to come to my funneral or memorial service so that
they could feel the pain and suffering that my family and friends have to go
through.  I know that if someone killed my by accident, then I would forgive
them and go to live with God.  If someone killed me on purpose, then I would
not rest in peace until they too were executed.  I know that sounds cruel,
but just think how innocent bystanders of drive-by shootings feel.  There is
no reason for violence in this world.  Anyone who kills someone else on
purpose should be executed.  I hope Tupac Shakur's killers die and go to
hell.  I know that he, too, was not the most perfect person in the world, but
I don't recall him ever killing anyone!!  Therefore, there was no reason for
him to be shot in the first place.  Violence is not the answer to problems.
I would go to Tupac's funneral if I could because I feel I knew him as a good
friend, even though I never have and never will meet him.

"There is no reason for violence in this world.  Anyone who kills
someone else on purpose should be executed."

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