Après funeral of a farmer

A comparison…

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Doug: Two funerals in a week!

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Diana: Both very different. One of a national celebrity, a writer, the other of a family and community figurehead, a farmer.

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Doug: How did the funerals play out?

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Diana: The writer had half a dozen eulogies, and songs, and a film of her life. The eulogies were presented, no, performed by her friends in the arts world.

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Doug: And the farmer?

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Diana: Oh, it was just as well executed. Eulogies and songs. But the tone was different. Family and friends, mainly farmers, remembered him, a bit tearfully, a little self-consciously, in eulogies. The songs were … popular ones.

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Voice-over

If we are to go out with people celebrating our life joyfully, including performers and artists among your friends in this life, can burnish an image. Yet to see a mime at a funeral though.

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