[Dumbledore]

Tears and laughter at my brother’s funeral.​

My husband and I, spent 3 months interstate caring for my critically ill brother, he sadly died and we helped his wife prepare for the funeral. His son came to the house to get an outfit to dress my brother in, my husband helped him pick entire outfit that he would be happy in. Day of funeral came, husband yells from my brothers room where I had hung our clothes, can’t find my jacket did you bring it he asked, yes was the answer, I’ll come and look, no jacket, then I said to him you wouldn’t have given it to my brothers son to dress him in , in the casket?.. so to the tune of “Look on the bright side of life” my brother being a great Monty Python fan. The family aware of the jacket story we’re laughing and crying at the time the coffin was being lowered on its way to be cremated. My husband (who gave the jacket to his son and said to him that this was a nice jacket) could be heard saying that was my favourite jacket!!!!! (true story)

 

[TriciaR]

Tears and laughter at my brother’s funeral.​

My husband and I, spent 3 months interstate caring for my critically ill brother, he sadly died and we helped his wife prepare for the funeral. His son came to the house to get an outfit to dress my brother in, my husband helped him pick entire outfit that he would be happy in. Day of funeral came, husband yells from my brothers room where I had hung our clothes, can’t find my jacket did you bring it he asked, yes was the answer, I’ll come and look, no jacket, then I said to him you wouldn’t have given it to my brothers son to dress him in , in the casket?.. so to the tune of “Look on the bright side of life” my brother being a great Monty Python fan. The family aware of the jacket story we’re laughing and crying at the time the coffin was being lowered on its way to be cremated. My husband (who gave the jacket to his son and said to him that this was a nice jacket) could be heard saying that was my favourite jacket!!!!! (true story)

Hi @Dumbledore ! Thank you for sharing this story! I'm sorry to hear about your brother. For whatever it's worth, there's going to be a story to share, that's going to put a smile on people's faces, for a long time to come.