Tickets to my funeral
From Gnomon Chronicles
I just learned that some people, when they get married, require the guests to pay a fee to attend the wedding.
Which — speaking as a satirist (my life's work, mind you) — gives me an idea:
Charge people to attend my funeral.
I don't plan on dying soon; maybe my prospective mourners could put that money in an escrow account now?
At my funeral, the accrued interest can be applied to something nice that everyone will appreciate, such as those funeral sandwiches and pasta salads served by old ladies in church basements.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
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- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Is praying his code word?
Categories
Nonfiction cross-reference
Categories
- Category:Death (nonfiction)
- Category:Essays by Karl Jones (nonfiction)
- Category:Funerals (nonfiction)
External links
- Funeral @ Wikipedia
Social media
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