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Friend's husband died unexpectedly. Recipes / pro
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 64564" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Barbara, I think your friends' family has chosen a wonderful way to remember their loved one! How much better it is to turn it into a celebration of his life!</p><p></p><p>My cousins' husband planned a celebration like this for <em>himself</em> BEFORE he died! He had fought cancer for years and had really had a rough time of it - never once did he complain! He was a wonderful man, a real "original". He had been a member of our family for 45 years, had a wicked sense of humor, and was really a character! He had donated his body to a university medical school so there was no actual funeral. But a week after he died, they held a memorial service for him at their church and a covered dish dinner afterwards. There were HUNDREDS of people there ... family, friends, neighbors, former co-workers, hospice staff that had cared for him. And the dinner went just as he would have wanted it ... everybody had brought their old pictures and started telling their favorite stories about him, some of the pranks he had pulled and the more outrageous things he had done. So there were all these people eating and talking and laughing themselves silly at the memories he had given them! It was wonderful!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 64564, member: 1883"] Barbara, I think your friends' family has chosen a wonderful way to remember their loved one! How much better it is to turn it into a celebration of his life! My cousins' husband planned a celebration like this for [i]himself[/i] BEFORE he died! He had fought cancer for years and had really had a rough time of it - never once did he complain! He was a wonderful man, a real "original". He had been a member of our family for 45 years, had a wicked sense of humor, and was really a character! He had donated his body to a university medical school so there was no actual funeral. But a week after he died, they held a memorial service for him at their church and a covered dish dinner afterwards. There were HUNDREDS of people there ... family, friends, neighbors, former co-workers, hospice staff that had cared for him. And the dinner went just as he would have wanted it ... everybody had brought their old pictures and started telling their favorite stories about him, some of the pranks he had pulled and the more outrageous things he had done. So there were all these people eating and talking and laughing themselves silly at the memories he had given them! It was wonderful! [/QUOTE]
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