My Funky Funeral

When Erin (from MFF fame) was asked by her husband what she wanted for Christmas this year, she forwent a diamond ring and expensive jewelry and with a wide, excited grin answered, “An ant farm!”

Like a child with her new toy, Erin spent the next week, eyes like saucers, studying her new pets and she was amazed with what she noticed.

When an ant dies its friends and family go into overdrive and begin organising its burial. The ants carefully stack their dead in neat piles. They then build underground cemeteries and neat compact burial mounds to honour their comrades.

With such sophistication me thinks it’s only a matter of time until ants are having their ashes packed into tiny diamond rings or launched into space.

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The funeral industry racks in around 10 billion dollars a year in the United States, and Vegas certainly doesn’t want to be left out of the fray. A company called Palm Mortuary has developed different backdrops that can be rented for a themed funeral (at a cost of $1000-$3000). Giant playing cards, an enormous slot machine, large dice, oversized casino chips, as well as a “Fabulous Las Vegas” sign help give gamblers a glittering send-off.

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MFF have been most perturbed to learn recently, that although some people tell loved ones of their funeral requests, other members of the family have gone ahead and done the opposite.

This is one of the many reasons why it is SO important for you to write your last wants and wishes down, and hand them to family members or friends you can trust. See our Questionnaire.

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The Shropshire Star has written a piece on the new trend of Eco-Friendly Funerals. Addressing the increasing requests for cardboard coffins one funeral home has begun to offer wicker, bamboo, willow, and even papier mache coffins! This trend has gone even further and now includes environmentally friendly grave sites forsaking headstones in lieu of indigenous wildflowers. These biodegradable coffins and low impact arrangements are ideal for those who’d like to get back to the earth as quickly as possible after they’ve bitten the dust.

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“What would you like in your casket with you?” Is a question in our Dead Good Funeral Plan that may seem somewhat strange to us in the West, but many cultures have been putting items in caskets, to accompany their loved ones journey to the other side, for many years.

However, the Jamaicans seem to have taken this age old ritual a tad too far. Not only are they known to place items such as knives, ganja, money, drinks, guns and jewelry in the coffin of the deceased, but according to The Jamaican Gleaner, cell phones are the number one item these days too.

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To Snort or not to Snort?

So after spending months of researching the unique and at times mind blowing ways people are disposing of their ashes these days (see our Ashes section), we thought we’d cultivated a rather thick skin when it came to Ash Disposal.

However, jaws dropped to the floor when Keith Richards of Rolling Stones fame admitted to snorting a cocktail of coke and the ashes of his father Bert, up his nose.

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