My Dad Had Some Unusual Requests For His Funeral. 3 Years Later, People Are Still Talking About It.
November 29, 2025
“If people aren’t laughing during my memorial, you’ve done it wrong,” my father told us for years, long before his death. “Funerals are inherently sad; for mine, cut the treacle a bit with humor.”
He thought a lot about funerals. Growing up, death was a dinner table conversation at our house almost every night, because my dad was an estate planning attorney. He always protected his…
