Had a very wierd experience the other week.
Went to a funeral and, whilst all in attendance loved the person who's funeral it was... we all started to laugh in the middle of the service - many to the point of tears.
The priest had mentioned an account of something the deceased had done, but he had been told the "sugar-coated" version. Someone shouted a part of the actual incident out from the back of the room - we in the family just fell about laughing as our best laid efforts were foiled.
Really helped break the tension and sombre mood of the day!
Wow, that's really strange. What had the person done in the story, anyways?
See, funerals don't have to be sad. In fact, I would say that they should (in most cases) be the opposite. Funerals exist to celebrate the life of the deceased. It should bring back good memories, and bring closure.
I haven’t written any testament but when I get around doing that I will have some rules:
- No black, the priest only if he or she needs to
- No long and boring speech by the priest, even if I’m dead the ones that do show up don’t need to be bored. Maybe the ones I knew could talk, about me and funny stories.
I remember a movie, or maybe it was a documentary about blacks and how they had funerals, crying while going to the grave and coming back with a big band and singing and dancing and just celebrating. Isn’t that a great way to celebrate them then I don’t know.
i agree - i'd rather mine were a happy (in general terms) occasion.
Plus, i'll be in a box so it won't really matter, whatever makes it easier on other people is fine with me.
But if it's a sad morbid occasion i may come back to haunt the organiser!!! 
Funerals are mainly for the people who remains behind, not for the deceased. It's a time when people is allowed to cry and express their grief. In societies when crying in public is considered a bad thing, funerals allow it, specially for men, who are very restricted about expressing their emotions.
I've seen on TV communities that celebrate with music, I supose they are centered in the deceased, and the joy of going to a better life, so there's no reason to cry.
Funerals, they should tell of what a person's life was, good and bad. Most of the ones I have attended we have laughed a bit, cried a bit, but mostly celebrate what that person lived for and what they believed in.
I little bit of laugh would cheer up the people who have lost their special someone in a long way.
There gone now, but hopefully the speical moments they gave us will always stay in our hears
I think that the dead person will not want their family and friends to greive too long, and to live their life happily, and not be dragged down by grief and mourning.
It'd be nice for people to be happy at a funny, and i'm glad you all had a laugh.
I hope someone laughs in my funeral...
Laughter...the best medicine! 
I can't remember where I read it or what country it was exactly (I think it was somewhere near China), but there's a country where all funerals have a stripper present :O
