“Chaos And Screaming Ensued” – 14 Of The Wildest Funerals People Have Ever Attended
by Benjamin Dzialdowski · BuzzFeedRecently, NationYell asked r/AskReddit, "What’s was the wildest thing you witnessed at a funeral?" So we thought we'd share some of the top responses.
1. "A Mariachi band crashed my father's funeral."
"Not intentionally, but it was during COVID and everything had to be held outside (and was supposed to be limited to like 10–12 people max); and there was a Mexican family having a funeral next to ours, but didn't heed the rules and brought a full Mariachi band + WAY more attendees than they were supposed to allow. We could barely hear ourselves speak! But my father would have found that hilarious, so we laughed about it later."
2. "I went to a funeral for my ex's pastor."
"Didn't know the guy. His wife was in the audience mourning. They had the part where people would come up and say nice things. To make a long story short, his side piece came up and basically let everyone know they were having a relationship behind his wife's back and said, ‘I’ll always know I was the one he truly loved,’ and went on for a good 15 mins and had to be escorted off stage. The wife was in utter disbelief. The whole place got silent and you could cut the tension with a knife.Talk about super awkward."
3. "The deceased had a pre-recorded message played where he individually roasted everyone in the front row for ten minutes."
4. "At one funeral, two brothers got into a full argument over the inheritance in the parking lot before the burial even started. Whole family was standing there in silence while they were yelling about a truck and a fishing boat."
5. "Last week. The deceased’s parents hated the deceased’s wife and children, so they completely excluded them from every speech."
"They ignored the wishes of dressing the man with his wedding day suit and buried him in a REAL MADRID football uniform. It gets worse. Every single person at the funeral except for the wife, his kids and the wife’s family, was also wearing Real Madrid T-shirts. They did not let the wife speak at the funeral. It was the most horrible thing I have ever seen a mother-in-law do to a daughter-in-law."
6. "Not wild but amazing."
"My grandmother passed at the age of 94, and planned her own funeral. She was the mother of 10 children, and years before there had been a massive falling out between two of the brothers, and everyone basically picked sides and then barely spoke for 20 years.
My grandmother and her children are all ‘good Catholics’ and put a lot of stake into ‘the word of God’, so at her funeral, she made the two brothers at the epicentre, who were in their 50s or 60s, sit on the stage together, waiting their turn to read passages she had chosen for them. Both had to stand in front of everyone and speak about family and forgiveness, and it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Granny really had the last laugh there, it was awesome."
7. "I was too young to remember but apparently my grandfather's girlfriend showed up to the funeral. My grandfather was an office man from the 50s and 60s; having a side girl was just kinda normal back then. Instead of telling her to leave, my grandmother straight up asked her, ‘Which girlfriend are you?’ Which caused the other woman to take the hint and leave."
8. "I was at a wake for a guy, and his friends had a jacked-up pickup truck in the parking lot, with a full keg going in the back. I never saw so many people that drunk at a wake. The deceased would have loved it."
9. "An evangelical minister, who didn’t know my grandfather at all, spent most of the sermon comparing my grandfather to Jesus before launching into a tirade about hellfire."
10. "The elderly deceased had his elderly buddies as pallbearers. They were not physically able to carry the load, and the casket was dropped, broken, and the deceased made one final appearance.Chaos and screaming ensued."
11. "They used YouTube for a few songs. The first song, it blasted an unskippable ad. The second song, it played an ad that had a drawing of a woman straining on the toilet. Went from trying to keep it together to laughing so hard we cried."
12. "My brother showed up to my stepdad's funeral wearing a T-shirt that read, 'I used up all my sick days, so I called in dead'."
13. "Secret family of the dead guy rocked up."
"Wife and two adult kids. A 30-year secret. It was my mate's dad. It was something. We just spent the wake thing remembering how when we were kids, his dad was always going away for work once a month and would come back and we'd find the shed filled with loads of extra light globes. His other wife worked for a light globe company."