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Cheerful Funeral
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Someone you knew or loved has died and you have been invited to their funeral. You arrive, but instead of finding people giving condolences, you see them laughing, chatting and telling jokes. And the actual funeral itself seems more like a party than a mourning. Now of course people do talk about the recently departed, but instead of mourning or missing them, they might be celebrating the life they lived, or are celebrating the cycle of life, or if their religion says so, they might be celebrating that the dead have Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence. Or perhaps the dead wanted their funeral to be like this, and for their friends and family to not be sad. These funerals can be very confusing to many and can lead to culture Clash, and it's not uncommon for the people at the funeral to think that people who prefer funerals to be somber just don't take the time to understand that not all funerals are the same. Not to be confused with The "Fun" in "Funeral" where the light hearted elements are unintentional in universe. They may be amusing to the audience, but awkward or downright insulting to the characters. Also not to be confused with Last Disrespects, where the light hearted elements are absolutely intentional and meant to be insulting and disrespectful to the deceased. And definitely not And There Was Much Rejoicing, where people celebrate the death of someone they hated. Also see Freaky Funeral Forms, for unusual and shocking funeral habits in general. In Real Life, a cheerful Irish wake will frequently follow a traditionally somber funeral instead of a reception for mourners to express condolences; Well, This Is Not That Trope. This trope is for when the mourning is bypassed completely. Compare with Themed Wedding. |
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Wizards and witches know when they're expected to die of natural causes, and occasionally like to hold "going-away" parties for those who are soon to kick the bucket (like Windle Poons in Reaper Man or Miss Treason in Wintersmith). It's rather like holding the wake a day early, so the deceased get to enjoy themselves before they go. | |
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The Hard Times: "Funeral for Ska Frontman Surprisingly Upbeat". The titular frontman's friends spend the funeral dancing and singing to upbeat ska music to honor his memory, resulting in some wacky antics when they knock the coffin over with enthusiastic skanking. | |
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In Mermaid (2011), merfolk live for 300 years before dissolving into foam and becoming part of the sea. When this happens, others celebrate their passing with song and feast. Lenia is one of the few who feel that death is a terrible loss, rather than something to be accepted and celebrated. | |
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After Shane MacGowan of The Pogues died in November 2023, fellow Irish artists Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill were invited to perform the band's song "Fairytale of New York" at his funeral. A widely-circulated video from the ceremony shows some of the mourners getting out of their seats to dance in the aisles during the song's closing instrumental. | |
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In Full House, this is how the funeral of the (unseen) owner of Smash Club, who died from heart failure (and left the club to Jesse in his will) takes place, according to descriptions from Stephanie, Michelle, and Jesse, who are all attendants of said funeral. The owner wanted his funeral to be joyous. | |
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Though it starts out as a dour occasion, Nanny Ogg quickly turns the late baron's funeral in I Shall Wear Midnight into one of these by singing his favourite song, then encouraging others to add more songs to it, until everyone is happily chatting about the life of the deceased. | |
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Parodied in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. An old woman asks her family to celebrate her life instead of mourning her at her funeral. Unfortunately, she ends up being the victim of a serial killer who tortured her to death, making the mood at her funeral party rather sombre. | |
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Discworld : Wizards and witches know when they're expected to die of natural causes, and occasionally like to hold "going-away" parties for those who are soon to kick the bucket (like Windle Poons in Reaper Man or Miss Treason in Wintersmith). It's rather like holding the wake a day early, so the deceased get to enjoy themselves before they go. In Men at Arms, members of the City Watch witness the funeral of a clown, which deteriorates into slapstick. Ritualistic, macabre slapstick devoid of any sense of humor or joy. Inverted in Interesting Times, where Rincewind sees people setting off fireworks in a parade and says "Good, eh?" to the old woman standing besides him, who snaps that it's Mr. Wu's funeral. Though it starts out as a dour occasion, Nanny Ogg quickly turns the late baron's funeral in I Shall Wear Midnight into one of these by singing his favourite song, then encouraging others to add more songs to it, until everyone is happily chatting about the life of the deceased. |
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A Growing Affection: Kankuro's funeral is a raucous affair; a feast with music and dancing, and plenty of alcohol for anyone having trouble getting in the mood. Naruto is confused and a bit put off, until it is explained that in the Land of Air a funeral is used to celebrate the deceased's life, and mourning is done in private. Later, Jiraiya's funeral is a similar affair, at the deceased's wishes. |
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In Ghost Whisperer at Jim's funeral, halfway through his eulogy his friend Tim states that this solemn, sad mood was not how Jim wanted his life to be represented and starts playing one of his favorite songs (an upbeat one), which gets everyone in the mood to start dancing. | |
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Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin: Riki tells Gin not to feel sad at the end of the final battle where so many died, but to howl in victory for the honor of the dead. | |
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The girl who's the subject of George Ezra's "Green Green Grass" makes a point of telling the narrator to throw a party on the day she dies. Ezra was actually inspired to write the song when, during a holiday trip to St. Lucia in 2018, he came across a lively street party that he learned was a funeral celebrating the lives of three people. | |
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The Menzingers: This is attempted in "Farewell Youth", a song about dealing with an old friend's death, but completely fails. | |
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In The Kane Chronicles, Sadie and Anubis at one point witness a funeral in New Orleans. At the time they arrive, the actual burial has already taken place, and the funeral has moved on to the stage where the mourners celebrate the life of the deceased with song, dance and revelry as they head away from the cemetery. This is a practice Anubis himself approves of, calling it "very Egyptian". | |
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Inverted in Interesting Times, where Rincewind sees people setting off fireworks in a parade and says "Good, eh?" to the old woman standing besides him, who snaps that it's Mr. Wu's funeral. | |
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Part of the early section of Coming 2 America spends time on King Jaffe's funeral. It's hardly a somber occasion, as he planned elaborate musical and dance performances as well as celebrity guest appearances. Jaffe himself was still alive for the funeral and even laying up in his coffin for the event, but once he'd seen enough and felt his time was close, he simply closed his eyes with a smile. | |
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In the well-known Designing Women episode "Killing All The Right People", a designer friend of the women (played by Tony Goldwyn) who is dying of AIDS asks them to design his funeral and to include the same Dixieland music he grew up with in New Orleans. At his service at the end of the episode, there is a big band playing "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", all the girls as well as Anthony and Bernice in attendance and sing along to the hymn. | |
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Lucky Luke: The Tenderfoot begins with the funeral of Pappy, a rancher and friend of Luke. In his will, he asked the townsfolk to have a round at the saloon in his name, which ends up in a classic Bar Brawl and a good time all around. Afterwards, two of the people who had fought in the saloon are walking home together and says that Pappy would have loved that fight. | |
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In The Wolf Man a Christian priest finds it utterly alien that gypsies would mourn the passing of Bela, a fellow gypsy, with celebrations and even a whole carnival. The movie implies that they were celebrating the fact that Bela is now freed from being a werewolf. But he has passed the curse on to Lawrence Talbot. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: After watching an incredibly boring funeral in The Gunslinger, Joel and the 'bots lie in fake coffins of their own and discuss what their ideal funerals would look like. Servo can't decide between something educational that explains his embalming methods, or a circus-like extravaganza. ("I want elephants, Joel, lots of them.") Crow, on the other hand, wants a beach-themed funeral, complete with keggers and "couples sneaking off to neck—prop me up so I can surf!" In At the Earth's Core, Max invents a cannon that fires cremated ashes like confetti, intended to make funerals more interesting. |
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In Men at Arms, members of the City Watch witness the funeral of a clown, which deteriorates into slapstick. Ritualistic, macabre slapstick devoid of any sense of humor or joy. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Though it's never seen, the people of the Summer Islands have funerals that are not somber occasions mourning the dead but celebrations of the lives they led, with wine and lovemaking. | |
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Vanity Fair's Improv Imagination kicked off with Game of Thrones alumnus Pedro Pascal describing the ideal funeral for his character, Prince Oberyn Martell. Highlights include a beach party for his subjects, a herd of red-clad elephants dumping his corpse into the bonfire, and a Human Sacrifice of the Lannisters, whose ghosts end up slain by that of Oberyn in the afterlife. | |
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The end of Thor shows Thor and the other Asgardians having a huge feast, and in The Avengers (2012) Thor tells an actually-very-much-alive Loki that they mourned him. At least one person outside the film tried to claim Thor was a Hypocrite because of this, but this was in fact how the Norse honored someone's death, making this a severe research flub (see below under Real Life). | |
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Choon-Hwa's funeral in Sunny is celebrated by her reunited high school friends dancing to "Sunny" by Boney M. at her wake. | |
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Eyes on Me: After Rose dies from preeclampsia complications while having Steven in Do It For Him, her friends and her significant other Greg hold a celebration of life for her. The service ends with Greg dumping her ashes into the ocean. | |
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A Doctor Who fan who bore a strong resemblance to David Tennant was buried in a coffin painted to resemble a TARDIS. | |
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Haunted Mansion (2023): The movie opens with a jazz funeral procession as Leota explains to the audience that New Orleans is a place that embraces death as a part of life and can find celebration even in mourning. | |
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In Warriors Redux, RiverClan cats grieve the week after a cat dies. The first week is spent rejoicing over their life. | |
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It's becoming more and more common for people to make their funerals more fun from the beyond, figuring "My life wasn't dull and depressing, why start now?" They'll often enforce this, often stating that they request that the attendees not wear black (in funerals where the culture dictates black is traditional), and even request in their funeral plans that they play such songs as "Another One Bites The Dust" or "Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead." | |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Hilariously Zig-Zagged in the famous episode "Chuckles Bites The Dust." Much of the cast spends the episode laughing about the amusing way Chuckles the Clown died ("He went as Peter the Peanut... and a rogue elephant tried to shell him."). Mary scolds them that laughing isn't in good taste. At the funeral, though, Mary herself gets a case of the giggles and disrupts the service. The priest reminds her that, being a clown, Chuckles hated tears and would have wanted everybody to have a good time and laugh... at which point Mary breaks down bawling. | |
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In The Coming Race, the Vril-ya have no fear of death, and see a painless death at an advanced age as a cause for celebration rather than mourning. The narrator attends the funeral of a man who died at the age of 130, where the smiling guests sing an upbeat hymn called "Birth Song" to celebrate the man's Ascension To A Higher Plane Of Existence. After the main service, Aph-Lin hosts a banquet at his house. | |
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black•ish ends with the Johnsons holding a lively, joy-filled funeral with the cast dancing in the street as a metaphor for moving out of the neighborhood. | |
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The cast of The Goon Show were noted for their dark humour. Peter Sellers requested that the Glenn Miller song "In the Mood", which he hated, be played at his funeral. Spike Milligan claimed to hope that his fellow cast member Harry Secombe died before him, so that he couldn't sing at his funeral. Sure enough, Secombe died less than a year before Spike; nevertheless, a recording of Secombe singing was played at his funeral. | |
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Geordi LaForge and Ensign Ro are seemingly killed in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Next Phase". (They've actually been shifted out of phase.) The Enterprise holds a memorial service which is surprisingly reminiscent of a New Orleans jazz funeral. When it's discovered that LaForge and Ro are not actually dead, the celebration of their lives turns into a genuine celebration. | |
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