The funeral was beautiful. I couldn't believe the trouble they went to. We didn't have to pay for anything, I still can't get over that. It was all done completely you know, free of charge. Because I just thought it was going to be a kind of... I don't know, I just thought it was going to sort of be, you know, not like a funeral per se, but like they were just going to kind of take care of things. And you know you'd maybe sort of have, you know, you could decide whether it was cremation or burial, and I just assumed that you'd either get the ashes to deal with or you know, there would be the little plaque for you to know exactly... but it was the whole thing. We got told like where the cemetery was, it was one not far from us, and the day and the time.
And we get there, and there's a thing up on the wall that, saying, 'cos throughout we called her [name], I don't.. just 'the bump' became '[name]'. And it had like [name] on the, on the name, the schedule thing, along with some other people like you know... staggered times. And they... the big car came. Big car came, and this, the little teeny tiny coffin, the name tag with [name] on the top. And the little church, well its more like a chapel in the crematorium, it was just like, you could tell it was going to be children's stuff all day 'cos there was toys, flowers and everything.
The priest did a whole ceremony. We hadn't, we hadn't asked anybody else to come, because we figured that really and truly we were the only ones that knew her. Like as we were leaving we saw another family arrive, and they had lots of people there but I didn't think I could have handled that having... so many people around. |
