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Funerals are never easy, but mourners have a habit of making things awkward — to the point where these solemn occasions can become unintentionally funny.
A simple question asked on a popular Reddit forum – “What’s the worst thing anyone has said or done at a funeral?” — seems to have resonated wildly with readers, who were eager to share their strange, often quite funny experiences.
The beginning of the now-viral discussion, first brought to the fore by The Outkick, delivers one accidental comic moment after another — laced with an unhealthy dose of just plain cringe.
“A friend of my father’s gets very anxious at funerals,” one person shared. “Once he wanted to wish a widow good health for her and her children, but instead he shook her hand and said, ‘I wish this for your children.’
“That’s why Luca Brasi rehearsed,” replied one sage, referring to a famous scene from “The Godfather.”
“My family is really weird,” another Redditor confessed, trying to explain their pointless account of their stepdad’s memorial service.
“The worst I’ve ever seen? My stepmother gave the eulogy at his father’s funeral,” they explained.
“[He] stood up in front of the whole church and talked about how much his father loved him…..no joke…. Garbage disposal. How he would throw away bags of fast food waste so that “criminals could clean up”. I’ve heard of pouring one for houses, but I’ve never thrown out your BK Whopper wrapper to commemorate Stepdad Dave,” they said.
And while officials forgetting the name of the deceased was a common complaint, in other cases, the families themselves made things far more awkward than they needed to be.
“My grandfather’s funeral in the early 2000s – my brother accidentally left the bell ringing and during a prayer all you hear is ‘You got your mom sending you Beyotch mail!’” one user shared.
“The family still hasn’t let him live it down,” they said.
A horrified relative shared the incredibly awkward moment someone forgot to think before they spoke.
Unfortunately, I had a cousin who passed away at the age of 9″, they said.
“I don’t know who he was, my uncle’s friend or something? Anyway, he goes to my grieving aunt and uncle and says, “It’s not like you can’t have another one.”
According to the storyteller, the unsuspecting attendee was invited out by the family members for an attitude adjustment.
A disgraced grandson has confessed to creating his own embarrassing moment at a young age.
“Probably what I said when I was 7 years old at my grandfather’s funeral. I thought I was saying my grandfather was dead, but my grandmother and 2 other grandfathers were still alive,” they admitted.
“‘One down, three to go,'” announced their diminutive selves to a horrified audience.
And speaking of horror: “At my stepdad’s funeral, my MIL grabbed my daughter’s stomach (who was already upset and upset) and said ‘what’s that’ implying she was fat,” she shared another person.
Still others told stories of opportunistic attendees using the services as a place to socialize, so to speak.
“I once saw the best friend of the deceased ask questions to the grieving widow in the cursed sight. The friend was shocked by her father outside. It was like a movie!” A viewer shouted.
Of course, New Yorkers know the joke about showing up at funerals to ask who’s getting the apartment — but one damn mourner had his sights set much lower.
“My dad passed and my uncle asked at the service if he could have my dad’s training equipment,” recounts one upset child.
But the recurring theme seemed to be that people couldn’t find the right words to say in a difficult moment – and ended up saying the worst possible words.
“My mother died suddenly at the age of 47. I was 21,” revealed one recipient of the unsolicited condolences.
“We had a difficult relationship, but I loved him. My therapist at the time came up to me in the waiting line, hugged me and told me I should be so relieved,” they shared.
Strangest of all, perhaps, was the funeral where the corpse literally passed through so people could say goodbye.
“My niece lost a 6-month-old,” explained a distraught family member. “They were passing the baby around for people to hold. Weird AF!”
Or maybe it wasn’t so weird.
“I’ll make my loved ones do this when I die at 95,” joked one reader.
“Just scroll me in the coffin, please,” another demanded.
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