Is it weird that I want to have a fun funeral?

An unfortunate fact about my life: I spent a lot of time planning funeral. I was 21 when my mother died of stadium four colon cancer. She asked for a traditional methodist service where the songs of Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam had to be played. My two American grandparents wanted smaller tasks in a chapel linked to the funeral home and asked for open coffins (something I still think of to this day). And then there was my father, who died of amyotrophic side sclerosis (SLA) last year; He was remarkable four years to meticulously plan his funeral. The memorandum was full of faithful requests (my fiancé was to read this exact passage of the Bible By memory, there would be a slideshow of photos approved at the reception of the Country Club), which made planning almost too easy for someone who was bigger than life.

These experiences helped me learn something important about myself: I want to have fun funeral. After all, the word has amusing in her.

Wear an outfit you think I would like, but you remember that I hate Dresses, Skinny jeans and khaki pants – Inspiration is Naomi Campbell at the funeral of André Leon Talley. A slideshow the size of a cinema should only be hot photos of me-if I have never sent you a naked text, go for it and throw it in there to remind everyone how beautiful I seem. Caffè Panna hire to distribute icing cream horn while a champagne tower overflows (each glass ended with a crunched antidepressant adorning the rim). Perhaps Sephora can make beauty touch up on site, giving everyone a dab of Victoria Beckham lip brilliant and a Westman workshop touch? Book the place for the whole night, even if we all know if I was there, I would have slipped at 9:15 p.m. Sharp to be at home with my cat. But I want my funeral to be a capital P party.

Last month, Bianca Castro-Arabejo (also known as Jiggly Caliente) died. Instead of a traditional burial, “Slaybill” (a play on Broadway Playbill) was organized in his honor. The event took the idea of ​​a celebration of life to heart – the guests wore pastel colors and the show series included acts of comedy that became Elogies everything on Caliente, as well as roasts that have traveled the line between black and simply dark humor. Comrade Drag Queen Karl Westerberg, known as Manila Luzon, embodied everything in his praise of laughter and cries. When you remember Caliente shooting Dragsters race Test video in an Apple Store, he said: “He gave an Auguste Gloop glamor by climbing the chocolate tube Willy Wonka,“But also” I am so sad that we cannot continue to do and dream together more and more. “”

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