how many funerals have you been to?

Non-Phish General
#4

in genereal or family members?

#5

My first was my grandfather when I was 15. Two friends, about a year apart to the day, since.

#6

I’ve been to a lot.

#7

8

#8

::snare, snare, cymbal crash::

#9

I’ll be here all weekend, try the veal.

#10

But in all honesty… I have been to… Well, I don’t know the exact number, but I would say more than a dozen.

#11

prolly around 10.

#12

I voted for 3-5. Hope it wins.

Uh, really I must have been to more than 5. Two grandparents, my mother-in-law, a boss’s husband, … a friend’s mother … that’s five right there. I know there’s more.

This thread is nowhere near as funny as that caption the picture of the hambike lady thread.

#13

it was intended to be funny…i was just curious…14 seemed excessive and first funeral at 18 seemed weird too…i dont know.

though i always thought it was funny when id ask my mom how someone died and she’d say “his heart stopped.”

#14

i’ve actually attended 5 but i maybe should have gotten to one or two more that i just couldn’t make it to.

my first was when i was about 15 i’d say and it was open casket (a great aunt). I couldn’t bring myself to touch the body. My brother touched it though. He was on LSD at the time.

#15

Did you mean, “it wasn’t intended to be funny”? Cuz I never really thought it was, and I don’t fault you, Thom, for not inferring the jovial nature of my, perhaps unclear and careless, post.

Yours truly,
Oh you mean ball golf masterflex

#16

^yes…i meant wasn’t. as in was not. as in you bastards.

#17

slit pisser

#18

#19

yeah i can count 12 that i’m remembering

#20

My mom and dad had 6 siblings each and most of them were married, so I’ve been to more funerals than I can count. The number has to be more than 20, and in an Italian family, I can’t say any one of them was an especially “good” time. Add to that a few co-workers and friends parents, etc. and the total has got be somewhere between 25 and 30 if you’re counting attending the wake and/or the actual funeral service. If you’re talking only the funeral, the number is closer to 20.

#21

I suppose the one saving grace to both my parents being only children is that it drastically reduces the amount of funerals in my immediate family.

Although I did hear my mother comment last summer after her father passed away that that was a time she wished she wasn’t an only child. You know, for moral support and stuff.

#22

ummm… I’ve missed a few but its somewhere around 10. Working at the nursing home has put the number of people I’ve seen die much higher then funerals attended.

#23

first one i went to? my papa, i was 3
first one i remember? my granddad… i was 9

I’ve been to 30+

between high school friends and older family.
small towns lead to nothing but trouble…
i can gar-un-tee you that one.