SLAB

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Just got back from friends funeral he drowned last week,i took a load of abuse for my floral tribute in the shape of a lifejacket, but as I told everyone at the service, it's what he would have wanted!

Baker

Lol, made me laugh!

10bats

lmao

juggers

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If it's your mate and he passed( in an horrific way...drowning) shouldn't you be a tad upset?

I guess people deal with grief in different ways.

I know I would be wounded if a mate of mine passed God forbid.

marcevs72

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you have the sense of humour of a squaddie.i visited 2 mates that were blown up on tour and had lost their legs,when i got to their rooms they had stumpy 1 and stumpy 2 written at the end of their beds,thats squaddie humour.lol

NOSSY_89

That ain't even funny. Went to a funeral last week the guy died of cancer. Its no laughing matter.

JonMc

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Sounds like good ol' squaddie humour to me, when I die I want people to celebrate my life and not mourn my passing. ATEOTD it's all down to knowing the person who's died and respecting what they would've want

alcazar

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Went to my best mate's funeral in September. I'd known him all my life, he was at my Christening

The hymns just did me in......

SLAB

iTrader: (77)

There is jokes about every thing m8 also you didn't have to read it, sorry if i upset you in anyway but like Jonmc says deaths to be celebrated i don't want peeps walking around feeling down cos am not here any more i want they to remember me as and who i was.
I also have had cancer M8 when i was in Sheffield for 2 weeks of keamo of hell I was the sole and party of the ward and that was with no hair and a face like pumkin and a drip bag filling me up every 10 mins, dont let things get you down unless you bought a bug eye of PMB Performance LTD Boston lolol

SLAB

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JIMMY SAVELL HAD THE RIGHT IDEA 45 DEGREES POINTING OUT TO SEE TOP CHAP

SLAB

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Ive lost very close people and family its hard to get your head around it at 1st but as they say that horrible saying TIMES THE GREATES HEALER its true but i think harsh way of looking at it but you have to carry on thats life.

stevie2011

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me and the mate said whoever goes first has to get this played at the funeral!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcu7MCtuTs

monkfish2

Good attitude slab, more people should be like you - life's too short.
A life jacket !! Ha ha, brilliant.

L&G.scooby

Top squaddie humour!!
Just what I hope for. Well in mate.

marcevs72

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when i go i want the lads to get hammered in the platoon bar and have a laugh at all the stupid things we have done together,espcially on tour.life is for living and when people leave us we should celebrate being part of their life.

abbott

If there was a like button i woulda hit it !
Kinda thing id want done at my funeral if i pegged it , and totally agree the fact a funeral should be a celebration of life instead of a mourning "within reason"

chopperman

I hope his family saw the funny side of your joke and you didn't cause more upset. The fact you had to explain yourself might indicate at their time of grief they may not have shared yours and your late friend humour.
Maybe im just old school, in these things. Always wear a dark suit and black tie ect.

NOSSY_89

Your right I didn't have to read it but did. I think I missunderstood you. If you were tight with him and had loads of inside jokes then it's a different story. So I take back anything that might have sounded insulting to you.

Just feeling a bit touchy that's all with what happened last week. Nearly smacked this guy and stupid gal at work for making a joke about cancer. Like I said touchy subject. She had the nerve to ask me if I was being serious.

L&G.scooby

Hell yea!!! And get all the tour photos out and have them up at my funeral.

scixer6r

Like to think someone would do something funny like that @ my funeral,can see the funny side to the life jacket thing though.

Captain-Sticky

Last funeral i went too was my old army boss, when the coffin went in always look on the bright side (Monty Python) was played. Everyone walked out with a smile on their face. Weirdest feeling ive had laughing at the end, but it was exactly what he wanted.

juggers

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There is no funny side to death, why would you celebrate the loss of a loved one.
I guess being in the army you see a lot of death and perhaps you have no value for life.....each to their own. I for one value life and not just mine every man around me.......it's always upsetting to hear about the death of a person.

marcevs72

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to say that people like myself have no value for life is a right **** thing to say,if anything we have more of a value for life as we see so much crap and loss in our jobs.
unlike civvies we have to make the choice to take life as well as save it.could you do that juggers???

juggers

iTrader: (1)

Yes, I actually tried to join the army when I was 17 however I was quite a naughty boy as a young lad and they knocked me back.

I don't see the family of soldiers sharing the same attitude when arriving back in coffins. It only seems familiar above among you "squadies".

Anyway each to their own I personally think it's a sad state of affairs when people are walking out laughing out of a funeral however thats just my 2p's worth.

chopperman

I think funerals are not for the dead person but more for the people left behind. The dead person may of had a view of mates having a laugh at his funeral as we all tend to make light of our own funeral when where still alive. The view the deceased had may not be what the loved ones left behind want.
Who should have there way. The deceased or the loved ones ? I say the loved ones but thats just my view.

hedgecutter

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My dad died when I was 13, my sister died of breast cancer 7 years ago, and my mum died two Januarys ago. I`m not a squaddie , but there`s nothing wrong with a bit of black humour. It`s what has shaped this humour of this country; irony, pisstaking, being able to laugh at ourselves. You made me laugh Slab, though I can understand it not being funny for some at the funeral, as everyone has different ways of dealing with grief.

dunx

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Christ, I hope my friends get a laugh when I pass...

But they certainly aren't getting one currently.

dunx