MINI: Fun At Funerals
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Even though they signify loss and heartache, it's possible to laugh during a funeral What are your stories?
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.2 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Fun at the funeral, we want your stories then. |
| 0:07.5 | Sometimes in life you can find laughter in the most unexpected places, like funerals. |
| 0:12.9 | I've sadly been to quite a few, and sometimes they can be giggling there, and it's this relief. |
| 0:18.4 | And you're reminded that you are actually lucky to be alive. |
| 0:21.2 | What a joy and what a thing we take for granted is. |
| 0:23.5 | So today, fun at the funeral, any stories, that's what we want to hear. |
| 0:27.5 | We lost, I know, to Alzheimer's early this year, been ill for a while and he always loved |
| 0:32.0 | to laugh. |
| 0:32.5 | And when he was, well, I'm sure he would appreciate what happened when we were lowering his coffin into the ground |
| 0:37.9 | this year. The coffin was starting to go in slanted, and as the men lowering it, they couldn't |
| 0:42.8 | get the rope length even as they were doing it. Dad was going feet first. Then suddenly the rope |
| 0:48.6 | at his head end suddenly unstuck real quick, and started unravel pace the coffin's head in hit the bottom rapidly |
| 0:59.4 | and there was just shifting and thud from the inside of the coffin the vicar then announced he's in |
| 1:08.7 | and everyone burst out laughing. |
| 1:11.5 | Mild man would have loved this Christian. |
| 1:13.4 | He loved to laugh and he loved him the sense of attention. |
| 1:16.4 | Perfect way for him to go out. |
| 1:18.2 | Debbie, thank you very much for sharing that. |
| 1:20.3 | That is, that's beautiful. |
| 1:22.0 | Julie, good morning. |
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