Man stages own funeral

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By britexpat

Wonder if you can do the same for a wedding ?????????????

A Romanian man staged his own funeral while he was still alive to make sure everything went to plan.

Marin Voinicu, 73, from Vadastra in Olt county, invited fellow villagers, relatives and friends to his home to mark his "future passing".

The village priest even accepted an invitation to officiate a funeral sermon at the man's home.

Mr Voinicu said: "I did everything by the book. I even dug my own grave in the cemetery and laid down in it to see how it feels.

"I asked my relatives to wail at my headstone for a test run. I was fully satisfied with my funeral."

He explained he decided to organise his own funeral because he didn't want to leave the task on his family's shoulders.

And his family agreed to go along with it because they felt it would be easier to organise the event when they were not distracted by grieving.

Mr Voinicu's daughter-in-law Oncica said: "If we had done this after his death it would have been harder.

"Everybody would have cried a lot but this way nobody shed a tear. We had such a good time one could have said it was more like a wedding than a funeral."

Ananova

By GodFather.• 11 Mar 2009 10:01
GodFather.

Guess I beter start looking for decent plot myself.. you never when my time comes.. I have few places in mind like Island of Bora Bora, Mount Everest, the deep blue sea etc..

have you ever considered where you would like to reat after dying..

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HE WHO DARES WINS

By Loulsy• 11 Mar 2009 08:41
Loulsy

oNCE LONG back this really rich guy wanted a top notch funeral when he dies.. so he arrived everything from the most expensive coffin to the organ music to the way the ceremony is to be held and everything .. everything had to be top.. the Best of Best...

Ironically.. he died in a plane crash and his body was never found... the coffin was burried empty..

WYSIWYG

By jcancerian• 11 Mar 2009 08:26
jcancerian

No ones gonna live forever!

So i too feel its not a bad idea doing this.

I mean i dont mind doing it for myself.

But its hard for me to see my family doin it...

But Separation is a wound that no one can heal!

Ofcourse if the person who died gave peace and love to all while he was alive,he would be missed.

Or else people are happy to see him go!!!

By Afaque• 11 Mar 2009 08:26
Afaque

crazy people!!!

By Kaldoosh• 11 Mar 2009 08:14
Kaldoosh

t is really very interesting unusual news and i know some elderly back in my country who feel their end in life (they're almost certain that their life comes to an end).

It is actually a very terrible feeling, nobody or even a creature likes to leave this world.

By mjamille28• 11 Mar 2009 08:12
mjamille28

hmm, i couldn't even imagine staging one's own death, let alone a funeral.. sounds creepy.... :P

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