An Individual Funeral
An Individual Funeral
Much is written nowadays on how funerals have changed
and are, continuing to change. Is there a limit? Perhaps a more apt question
would be, “Is there anything I can do differently?” or, “Is there anything that hasn’t been done?”
Of course not everything
has been done yet; there are no cremated remains currently bound for Mars but
who knows? The future will reveal more than the limit of my imagination, though
down here on Earth, people are individualising funerals more and more – why?
Being older, I think current generations are deprived,
in some ways? Others say, they are the generations of the ‘entitled!’ Not for
discussion here – that subject. However, my meaning is this: growing-up through
the 60’s, we not only saw the ‘Pop’ explosion with the ‘coming-of-age’ of Elvis
Presley and the subsequent boom of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The
Kinks to name but a few; we had, ‘Flower Power,’ Purple Hearts, Vietnam, Free Love, The Bee Gees, Abba, Woodstock, Long Hair,
Short Hair, Mods & Rockers, Teddy Boys, Hob Nailed Boots, Guitars, Sitars,
Hippies, Pot, Yoga, Karma – the list is almost endless, we even had a ‘Royal’
divorce!
What we did was, revolutionary – not in a violent way
because we were, ‘Banning the Bomb,’ as I recall? Beeching was doing something
with the railway – it was a hectic time of change with technology on the brink
of digital emergence, heck, we did that too!
Video games, Commodore computers – Apple? Hmmm.. and
of course, Clive Sinclair.
The problem we created unfortunately was that we
didn’t leave a lot for the generations that followed us – they have no identity
of their own. Yes, they keep trying to re-invent the wheel and think they’re
pretty good but, we know how it went the first time round.
It’s a struggle. Through the 20th century,
there are defining decades of change: Queen Victoria, Henry Ford; Wilbur
Wright, World war I; The Industrial Revolution; The Depression; World War II;
The Welfare State; Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran; The Beatles – pop
music; Discothèque, The Gulf War – what exactly do people growing-up today have
to offer or, be identified with? Mobile Phones, Video Games, I-this and that;
Digital Photographs or ‘Selfies’ and of course, the ubiquitous Facebook!
Hardly a recommendation and still, mostly provided for them so, no wonder they try to find
‘how’ to be different and in truth, they have succeeded in numerous areas but
they usually begin with the word, “Extreme.”
Now is their time: parents are dying and the power of
the internet, a particular skill area of this generation, is being used to not
only arrange their funerals online in some way or fashion but to read and
upstage the exploits of those who dared to do something different or
outrageous.
Princess Diana’s funeral was epic. Elton John to name just
one performer was seen by millions who tuned in their televisions all over the
world.
Today, crematoria produce a ‘Top Twenty List’ of the
most popular songs requested at funerals.
In a few short years, I have seen the profession
change from using an organist to, cassette tapes, all individually ‘keyed-up’
and ready to go to the advent of CD replacement to, ‘online’ music libraries
almost throughout the country. Classical music, hymns, with or without choral
accompaniment and popular songs from the last 75 years are no strangers to
funeral services and, in churches too!
Scottish Pipers, air fly-bys, dove and white pigeon
releases; helium filled balloons, cremated remains turned into jewellery and
diamonds; shot into the air in fireworks; sent down the river, scattered on the
motorway, dropped from hot-air balloons, taken out to sea, to the moors, beauty
spots, golf courses, favourite cricket clubs or football grounds; coloured
coffins painted with football team colours, cardboard made to look like wood,
wicker, bamboo, seagrass - the list is infinite.
With 75% of all funerals in England and Wales,
possibly the United Kingdom culminating in a cremation, crematoria have
facilitated the public’s desire and dreams for their own commercial gain –
after all, cremation is a business created to deal with death; businesses run
or exist because of profit; shareholders benefit, the public benefit –
everyone’s a winner? The ‘church?’ – Well, that’s another story!
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