I know where I'm NOT going to have my funeral

[downzy]

China bans strippers performing at funerals....

Didn't know this was a thing. In fairness, it would make funerals more bearable.

I wonder if Axl will address this sensitive subject in a song on Chinese Democracy II. Maybe call the song "Freedom Death Dance"?

China Says Please Stop Hiring Funeral Strippers

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/04/23/chinese-government-says-please-stop-hiring-funeral-strippers/

In China, friends and family of the deceased may have to do without a special form of funereal entertainment: strippers.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Culture on Thursday, the government plans to work closely with the police to eliminate such performances, which are held with the goal of drawing more mourners.

Pictures of a funeral in the city of Handan in northern Hebei province last month showed a dancer removing her bra as assembled parents and children watched. They were widely circulated online, prompting much opprobrium. In its Thursday statement, the Ministry of Culture cited “obscene” performances in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, as well as in Handan, and pledged to crack down on such lascivious last rites.

In the Handan incident earlier this year, the ministry said, six performers had arrived to offer an erotic dance at the funeral of an elderly resident. Investigators were dispatched and the performance was found to have violated public security regulations, with the person responsible for the performing troupe in question detained administratively for 15 days and fined 70,000 yuan (about $11,300), the statement said. The government condemned such performances for corrupting the social atmosphere.

The government has been trying to fight the country’s funereal stripper scourge for some time now. In 2006, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television’s leading investigative news show Jiaodian Fangtan aired an exposé on the practice of scantily clad women making appearances at memorial services in Donghai in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.

The point of inviting strippers, some of whom performed with snakes, was to attract large crowds to the deceased’s funeral – seen as a harbinger of good fortune in the afterlife. “It’s to give them face,” one villager explained. “Otherwise no one would come.

CCTV found about a dozen funeral performance troupes offering such services in every village in the county, putting on as many as 20 shows a month at a rate of 2,000 yuan ($322) a pop.

“This has severely polluted the local cultural life,” CCTV intoned at the time, marveling at the sight of one women gyrating out of her clothes mere steps from a photo of the deceased. “These troupes only care about money. As for whether it’s legal, or proper, or what effect it has on local customs, they don’t think much about it.”

The mainland isn’t alone in its preference for the practice: similar ensemble performances are also popular in Taiwan – as National Geographic documented in 2012, with stilettoed, short-skirted women dancing graveside. The practice there dates back decades.

[Len Cnut]

For all the difference its gonna make to me you could chuck me in a skip.

[Gracii Guns]

"The point of inviting strippers, some of whom performed with snakes, was to attract large crowds to the deceased’s funeral – seen as a harbinger of good fortune in the afterlife. “It’s to give them face,” one villager explained. “Otherwise no one would come."

Well that's a pretty shitty predicament. You contribute to humanity for 70 years, but nobody would come to your funeral unless there were strippers.

Thank Jesus that I live in the UK, where I've already booked a Full Monty-esque group, complete with butt hair and bellies for my send off.

[magisme]

According to a statement from the Ministry of Culture on Thursday, the government plans to work closely with the police to eliminate such performances, which are held with the goal of drawing more mourners.

WTF?

Edited April 24, 2015 by magisme

[Nosaj Thing]

Crazy world we live in.

[spunko12345]

For all the difference its gonna make to me you could chuck me in a skip.

Chuck me out with the bins on a Thursday, now it's the council's problem.

[Len Cnut]

I heard in Ghana they keep em in the living room all done up like a christmas tree for a week while all the guests come round and pay their respects, proper sitting up in the comfy chair and all that.

I might've seen that on Karl Pilkington actually, excuse me if i just chatted a load of bollocks there!

[Snake-Pit]

I've always said I'd like to be buried in a Porsche - the only problem I see with that is getting a Porsche.

Edited April 24, 2015 by Snake-Pit

[spunko12345]

I actually stole the bins idea of pilkingtons dad. On the one hand I couldn't give a shit what they do with me but on the other I quite like the idea of having a packed church crying over what a great bloke I was and mourning me. Former lovers, friends who want to talk me up. And just when the ceremony is over and people are looking forward to a good piss up at the wake I'd have someone announce "and I'd just like to say richard wouldn't have wanted this to be a celebration he would want you to all solemnly reflect quietly on his life. It's what he would have wanted" Just to be a cunt.