So I was home for the Memorial Day holiday, and I took my biological father to the Neidermyer Reunion (I have to post those pics ... maybe this weekend or else I might as well save them for a May 2031 Friday Flashback, assuming Facebook lives that long and we all survive the Dec 2012 Mayan apocalypse). In the car, our conversation turned serious as I brought up the recent passing of his sister, and he did disclose to me that he'd like to buried in his Santa Claus suit.
Mind you, he was born in 1923 -- but it was during a moment of lucidity, so I feel that I should take him at his word. I just wonder if that kind of thing has been done before. Or if it makes a mockery of the whole funereal experience. Or if we're just asking for a "chuckles the clown" kind of event.
Don't know -- but I wanted to get it "in print on the interwebs", so that people don't think I'm making it up when he does pass. (And when he does, you're all invited to Santa's burial ...)
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD FIND IF I GOOGLED "SANTA'S FUNERAL":
http://www.justwronggreetings.com/V3/JWG/Greeting+Cards/Jewish+Humor/OY!,+OY!,+OY!--HAPPY+CHANUKAH!/~ViewCard.php~id=295
OR THIS TOPICAL NEWS STORY:
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2011/05/05/greek-pm-booed-at-funeral-video/
MY BIO DAD IS AS OLD AS TIME MAGAZINE:
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1923.html
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