Going out in style

August 26, 2006 5:39 AM

Are you a recently deceased motorcycle enthusiast desiring of a dignified final ride? You can have it! Want to be carted off to your final resting place in rugged style, in a 4x4 Land Rover like the one you used to tear around in when you were among the living? No problem! But if you've just kicked the bucket in China's Jiangsu Province and you'd been hoping to wow the mourners at your big send-off with some strippers, sorry, but you can't do that. Just want to learn a little more about funeral practices around the world? You can go here.
posted by flapjax at midnite (11 comments total)

Also, you might want to check out the Museum of Funeral Customs, and this page full of links to funeral traditions-related sites.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:41 AM on August 26, 2006

do you want to be buried inside a giant diet coke can?
posted by snofoam at 7:28 AM on August 26, 2006

I want a jazz funeral, culminating in a Viking "burial" on the Mississippi.
posted by brundlefly at 7:31 AM on August 26, 2006

Morbid AND amusing.

Personally I want an irish wake (you know, reach out to the neighbors I didn't know I had as my last act, kind of thing). Laid out like so.
posted by shownomercy at 9:16 AM on August 26, 2006

Are you a recently deceased motorcycle enthusiast desiring of a dignified final ride?

I'm not sure if such a person can answer! :>

Nice FPP though.
posted by bim at 9:27 AM on August 26, 2006

On the Internet, no one knows you're dead.
posted by owhydididoit at 9:46 AM on August 26, 2006

LOL. Good point, owhydididoit. :)
posted by bim at 10:06 AM on August 26, 2006

that photo of the Land Rover in the river made me think it was part of the service - like a burial at sea. My brain was going, "this can't be ecologically sound...".
posted by forallmankind at 11:17 AM on August 26, 2006

Or select an art casket: angels, NASCAR, hunting, etc etc.
posted by paperhaus at 11:43 AM on August 26, 2006

Not worried:

posted by Rhomboid at 2:13 PM on August 26, 2006

Rhomboid, it's nice to know that back in good ol' Springfield U.S.A. you can still have strippers at a funeral. I'm wondering, is it Mr. Burns' funeral? (Or, hey, wait a minute, the one with the pink hair looks like she might be Chinese...)
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:09 PM on August 26, 2006