I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
We don't do funerals in my family.
My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.