There’s no doubt that funerals can be very emotional — the loss of a loved one can bring up all sorts of feelings, and we each have our own ways of coping.
But, sometimes, between the crying and the condolences, there are moments that remind us that funerals can have a lighter side, too.
It might be an awkward mishap or some straight-up ridiculousness that makes you want to crack up in the middle of the service, but the fact that you know you shouldn't be laughing only makes it funnier.
Then, of course, there are the funerals that are intentionally funny — which, amid all the pomp and circumstance, can be a major relief.
These are a few anecdotes that had people dying of laughter at funerals
“We went home after my dad's funeral and at some point my mom exclaimed, ‘Oh No! I forgot your father!’ My siblings and I figured she was having some sort of grief-confusion mental break, but apparently she had actually left the urn with all his ashes at the church.”
“I have a very short uncle. He went to kiss his friend on the cheek and fell into the casket. The lid closed on him and all you could see was his legs dangling from the closed casket. I don't think he ever got over that.”
“When my grandmother died, the old woman who sang for the funeral had bright red lipstick on. Her singing was horrendous and she had a chunk of lipstick on her front tooth. My mom and my aunts were laughing so hard but people assumed they were still sobbing. We still laugh at it to this day.”
“Before Pop died, he made sure that we knew to play Whitney Houston’s 'Simply the Best' at the end of his funeral. Everyone laughed. It was great.”
“My father had, as his last wish, the entire funeral wake wear read noses, including myself, my brother, and my cousins who were the pallbearers, while ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ played. I carried my dad in his cardboard coffin to the hearse, wearing a bright-red clown's nose.”
“My father was kneeling in the front row with his brother-in-law at his father-in-law's funeral. My dad noticed that his father had a black eye and quietly asked him about it. He responded, ‘He wouldn't get in the damn box.’ He said they were both crying trying to hold in the laughter.”
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