Author Topic: A Game Show-themed funeral? (Read 8651 times)

bulldog_06 · « **on:** December 09, 2013, 10:44:34 PM »

Tonight\'s episode of \"Best Funeral Ever\" on TLC features a deceased person receiving a game show-themed funeral. Would you want one of those?

clemon79 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2013, 11:02:15 PM »

Tonight\'s episode of \"Best Funeral Ever\" on TLC features a deceased person receiving a game show-themed funeral. Would you want one of those?

I don\'t want a funeral anyhow (what kind of a dick move is it to accrue that kind of expense as my last act when my heirs could use that cash towards something actually functional?), but if I did, I damn sure wouldn\'t want one that caused my guests to die of sympathetic embarrassment.

TLEberle · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2013, 11:08:02 PM »

I would have no problem setting aside $1,000 or so for a smallish and low-key get together; enough for food and an open-bar so people could share stories and such, but there\'s not a chance in hell that I want them playing This Was My Life at the party. I\'m not well-off enough so that people think I\'m eccentric; I surely don\'t want my not-very-secret hobby put on display as the last thing they remember about me.

/Back when I still had a subscription to Games Magazine, someone wrote a short story about a rich guy who kicks off and has his dipstick son play Who Wants to be an Heir? for the large-ish estate on offer.

clemon79 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2013, 11:13:35 PM »

I would have no problem setting aside $1,000 or so for a smallish and low-key get together; enough for food and an open-bar so people could share stories and such,

Note that this isn\'t a funeral, though, that\'s a wake, and I\'m fully in favor of those. I want my people to gather, fire up the Xboxen, and (figuratively; otherwise it\'s a waste) pour one out in my honor.

The Ol' Guy · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2013, 11:58:02 PM »

If you\'re not going to be cremated, every funeral has at least a touch of CrossWits. Six down and three across.

aaron sica · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2013, 12:48:17 AM »

I wouldn\'t want a funeral with a \"Card Sharks\" theme....Might be awkward if they have to go to \"Sudden Death\"....

DoorNumberFour · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2013, 01:16:47 AM »

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urbanpreppie05 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2013, 06:56:04 AM »

My brother called me and told me to turn to tlc to see this (which I don\'t have, got rid of cable for netflix/hulu plus in the last move) and described the details of this..fiasco. My response?

\"I hate our fandom sometimes\"

BrandonFG · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2013, 09:40:23 AM »

No...I\'m perfectly okay with what some people call a \"celebration of life\". Once I start my family (Good Lord willin\'), I will make that clear that that is what I prefer.

I\'m not okay with them playing Sale of the Century for my personal belongings.

/You can have Brandon\'s Kindle Fire, originally priced at $200

//For the low, low price of http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120212154735/gameshows/images/1/1a/Instantbargain2.jpg\'>$12!!!

dale_grass · « **Reply #9 on:** December 10, 2013, 09:49:21 AM »

I\'m not okay with them playing Sale of the Century for my personal belongings.

But think of how nicely any disagreements would segue into Family Feud.

PYLdude · « **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2013, 10:01:08 AM »

I\'m not okay with them playing Sale of the Century for my personal belongings.

But think of how nicely any disagreements would segue into Family Feud.

If people wouldn\'t be in Jeopardy of getting beat up over stuff like that.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #11 on:** December 10, 2013, 10:10:06 AM »

Now, now....no fighting at the celebration. Someone can have the Kindle if The Price is Right...

/Starting to feel uncomfortable here

//Praying the Kindle is about 60 years past its prime when all this goes down

///Then they can try and sell it to one of those History Channel \"antiques\" shows

PYLdude · « **Reply #12 on:** December 10, 2013, 10:27:07 AM »

Now, now....no fighting at the celebration. Someone can have the Kindle if The Price is Right...

/Starting to feel uncomfortable here

//Praying the Kindle is about 60 years past its prime when all this goes down

///Then they can try and sell it to one of those History Channel \"antiques\" shows

Pawn Stars: the Next Generation?

/Brandon Foster-Gray\'s funeral is a Reg Grundy Production

bscripps · « **Reply #13 on:** December 10, 2013, 11:05:16 AM »

\"Get a thousand dollars or more and you win the game, but if the Devil comes up, it\'s all over and you lose everything.\"

jjman920 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 10, 2013, 12:30:46 PM »

\"Ladies and Gentleman, prior to his death, Brandon Foster-Gray placed his life savings into one of these sixty-six surprise packages. Today, someone may win one of Brandon\'s fabulous belongings, or the grand prize of his life savings on...a very special edition of Treasure Hunt!\"