I’m only 60 and I’m being targeted by funeral companies
telegraph.co.ukA post shared by EXIT HERE (@exitherefuneral)Look, I’m all for personalising a funeral, especially when it’s in the tragic shadow of someone dying young.
In those dreadful circumstances, you want to see bright colours. To celebrate their spirit, their passions. A stark, dark funeral is too heartbreaking to contemplate.I even pushed the black-edged envelope a tad for my old dad.
He was a joker, so in his eulogy, I said, ‘He was always the life and soul of the party… even if he hadn’t been invited.’ Which was true – he once gatecrashed an event and joined a line-up to shake Prince Philip’s hand.
I also took on board his request that, at the end of the service, he didn’t want his coffin ‘to disappear through curtains like a suitcase at Heathrow’.
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