Improper Moments That Happened at Funerals And Threw Everyone For a Loop

When a loved one passes away, it’s understandable to be distraught and emotional at their funeral. But it’s also fair to be surprised when someone shows up to the event acting anything but respectful of the moment.

These real life stories are all about moments that really surprised the attendants of a funeral, for better or worse.

Her Plan Was Thwarted

When I was little, I went to a funeral for a man who had been killed during a home invasion. My family knew the guy relatively well since my dad was on his bowling team. During the funeral, we sat in the balcony area of the church right above the guy’s widow and his five kids.

As the funeral progressed, the dead guy’s daughter, who was about 12 years old at the time, started to cry, as did her younger brother who was seven.

Their mother, who was decked out in the typical grieving widow outfit, reached over and smacked both of them across the face and told them to stop crying. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I told my mom what happened and she said she saw it as well.

I may have been young, but I knew something was wrong. As it turns out, the “grieving widow” killed her husband and intended on taking out her kids too, all to be with her new lover.

But, the house didn’t go up in flames like she hoped, so her kids survived and her new hopes and dreams disappeared.

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An Abrupt End

This didn’t occur exactly at the funeral, but it was at a memorial service to spread the ashes of the deceased. Two of his closest friends and a few close relatives each spoke of a brief memory about the man and then spooned out some of the remains and scattered them.

When his best friend takes his turn, he says, “This is how much I loved Jeremy.” What he did next shocked everyone. He proceeds to EAT the spoonful of ashes.

There was a very audible gasp from nearly everyone. Then, the deceased man’s brother yells, “Did you just eat part of my brother?” He then tried to punch him while the friend was held back by three other relatives.

It ended the service abruptly, with everyone walking quickly back to their cars to leave. It certainly made a lasting memory.

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Could I Stop By Sometime?

This happened at my father’s funeral. A neighbor we don’t see very much approached my mother and asked if she was planning to sell my parent’s house now that she was alone. He wanted to move his mother in from out of state.

He then asked if she could stop by sometime and identify the owner of the garbage that was blowing into his property. He did all of this while holding up the condolences line.

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No One is More Upset Than Me

Honestly, we were all so angry that this one woman showed up at all. The dead guy hated her. She showed up wearing a Little Mermaid t-shirt and Pikachu hat.

While the priest spoke, she stood up and paced in front of him a few times, then sat next to the dead guy’s grieving fiance and told her, “No one is more upset about this than me.”

Someone discreetly pulled her away and sat her down three rows back where she loudly sobbed, wailed, sniffed, and professed her grief. When the service ended, she stood up in front of the casket and invited everyone in the room to a party she was hosting that night.

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