""You should live your life in such a way that the preacher doesn't have to tell any lies at your funeral""
I'd rather cross out the doesn't have to part - preachers like clean-living, conforming good Christian little boys and girls. Most dull and rather limiting! Cool quote until you think about it...
Hmm. I think most of that stuff can be just omitted rather than lied about. The sense of it that I got when I heard it (the preacher at my uncle's funeral quoted it) was that it was more about the preacher saying you were a good person, loved, touched people's lives, etc. You do have a point. I just hope whoever winds up organizing my funeral picks a preacher apropriate to the way I (have / will have) lived, one not quite so big on the conformity part.
Not sure about the funerals, but it does seem to me that a colourful life ought to produce a more interesting wake than a conforming life, eh?
(I've long said that if I have a "dying words" situation, I want my last words to be some utterly awful pun, so that my friends will be shaking their heads saying, "I can't believe we have to quote that as Glenn's last words.")
Oh yes, for people living a "normal" sort of a life its a lovely sentiment, very apt at a funeral too.. just thinking how some of my mores and decisions would turn the local vicar's hair white :)
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preacher doesn't have to tell any lies at your funeral""
I'd rather cross out the doesn't have to part - preachers like clean-living, conforming good Christian little boys and girls. Most dull and rather limiting! Cool quote until you think about it...
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Not sure about the funerals, but it does seem to me that a colourful life ought to produce a more interesting wake than a conforming life, eh?
(I've long said that if I have a "dying words" situation, I want my last words to be some utterly awful pun, so that my friends will be shaking their heads saying, "I can't believe we have to quote that as Glenn's last words.")
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