I Didn’t Know Trading Cards Were An Option…
I work for a not-for-profit. And we have a program for when people die, you can send us money and we send a nice card.
You get the idea.
So, sometimes when people send in their money, they send in the obituary from the newspaper or they send in what looks like a trading card. Up until last week, they always had a picture of a saint or something on one side and the person’s info on the other side.
But on this person, we got two cards from different donors. And there was a different picture on the two cards. Like collectibles. COLLECT ALL FOUR! How cool would that be? It’d give people something to do at the funeral besides stand around and boo-hoo.
Mourner #1: Anyone got the trees and roadside bench?
Mourner #2: I got that! Trade for the river with a goose?
Mourner #1: Deal!
So, at my funeral, I want trading cards. I’m thinking either stuff by Patrick Nagel or pin-up art from Gil Elvgren. Both of these guys were awesome.
So, we have the games, the music and maybe to finish it up, we get some cardboard displays of my heroes and scatter them around the room. More on that later.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Hey, it’s your funeral, we can party any way you want! Oh wait, did I say party? I mean, mourn….What? You won’t be there so who cares, right? LOL
Oh and, why don’t those cards ever have a photo of the person on there? I always thought that was kinda weird. I want my boo-hoo cards to have a pic of me. After all, they are memorial cards, how better to remember the person?
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August 17th, 2009 at 7:46 am
You covered the music, games and decor…how about the food?
August 17th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I find it very odd that they send in memorial cards. Like, what would you do with them?
Many times younger people will have their pictures on those cards, which I get. Catholics have saints – that’s just what we do. But pictures of the older folks who have died? I”m on the fence about that. I have cards from the people I’ve known, and there is one sweet old lady I worked with whose smiling face would be nice to see -she was a doll, and I miss her. But some others? Eh.
My mom carries those cards around, which I find odd. Her dad, my aunt (not her sister), her mom.
As to food, my mom wants cocktails and passed hors d’ouveres.
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August 18th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I was at a memorial service last weekend where during the Wake, the daughter or the deceased came around handing out – and I’m not making this up – M&M’s with her mother’s picture on the back. Creepy, but delicious. “Here, have a candy with my dead mom’s picture on it!!”
I’ve always wanted a pressure or motion detector in front of my casket so that when someone come up to see me, my hand pops up and waves and a recording of my voice plays something like “hey, good to see you. Thanks for coming. Doesn’t it look like I’m just sleeping?”
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