The Moaning of Life - S1E5 'Death'

Are we going to get uploads of the rest of the moaning of life we are missing art episode and a couple of other I'm not sure I thought there were more than 5 all together ?

Connor Joseph

I was the same when I saw my dad its a very uncanny and uncomfortable feeling. But I saw him in the morning in bed not in a coffin so it was unexpected.

Arthur Goonie

Western funerals are so dumb. Why do we all go along with the notion that a funeral has to be depressing and solemn? Surely everybody would rather that people celebrate their life when they die, and surely everybody would rather celebrate somebody else's life upon their death. I just don't get it. We need to change the way things are done in the West.

Right Said Brett

Imagine explaining to Comfort that she would have a memorial bin in Hastings, England after she died lmao

Kayleigh

In Scotland we tend to have a big piss up at a funeral and just get drunk and sing and it becomes a party a lot of the time

Nichole Hutchison

I thought after the 1st minute of this that this was going to be a 2hr episode.

JEFF!?!

Looking forward to the S2 reactions

BoggySalls

Inetweeners cast confirmed coming back, even if it's shit or not the same i cant wait to see them all together again https://x.com/StokeyyG2/status/1977531196734075261

John Davis

The only way the Kit-Kat or Twix ideas work is if you are planning a murder suicide. The venn diagram of people planning a novelty coffin and a murder suicide is probably just two circles.

Jeffrey44

That's okay for a family of bikers or prostitutes but why would normal people want a tattoo?

Jeffrey44

We weren't talking about America when talking about that though

RegenerationNationTV

Mike asking Jess "where are all the ones from 500 years & 1000 years ago?", not remembering American history lol

Ever So Sweet Mary Jane

You can get ashes put into a tattoo

Dango247

Different cultures do things differently. Obviously the whole bit of preparing the body isn't glamorous but we don't see that part here either. The family seems to enjoy having her propped up in the corner so what else really matters

Brad Johnson

Why would they skip something because you dont like it? Just skip the reaction and dont watch it.

L Chi

She's really great, isn't she? I've learned so much from her

Emily

It's a good point. Although my Grandad was English, he was married to my (Northern Irish) grandmother and had an open casket, so i'm also very familiar with this practice as its something a lot of my family do even though most of us are now English. The tradition has carried down.

Daz Parker

You've loved a bit of Fred Dibnah. Check out this mad bastard! https://youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?si=h-nVdF5ydTyqJHRx

Dannythedoodle

Just skip the Art episode, that was one of the worst things I've ever seen on TV.

Blant

My auntie works at a funeral home and does the makeup and her husband drives the funeral cars I dont know how they do it everyday talking about your day to each other would be weird she told me how the bodies fart and that's why the mouths etc are all stitched up

Craig Burns

I really wish Karl would do another series. I don't even care about the subject matter. We just need more Karl.

ElvisLee

I think a suitable middle ground would be they are burried until that perons 2 generations of family below are deceased, at which point the space is reused for someone else. I think thats kinda what was happening here, but only 5 years of krypt space.

Jamie Derry

When my Aunt died her wish was for nobody to wear black at the funeral. She wanted people to celebrate her life not to be miserable. The final song that she chose for the ceremony was "Another One Bites the Dust". Most people burst out laughing.

Graeme Frew

As someone who's married to a Filipina I'll just give you the info about the 5 year thing, it will basically be a money thing. You pay for a certain amount of time for a fee, the owners of the plot will not be making money if new burials aren't happening. I remember when this episode went out, it was delayed for weeks due to all the deaths at the time in the Philippines from the storms. I'm watching it today and again people are dying in the hundreds but this time due to 2 weeks of earth quakes. You could be a kit kat 😂, death is like a box of chocolates!

Gary

If we're talking about having something that makes you laugh at a Funeral, 2 Taiwanese women turning up in a bad KKK cosplay making all that noise I would find quite funny tbh...

Patrick Nicholls

lol obviously dug up

Jamie Derry

Dog crap isn't very natural and is more dangerous, i guess in the US it wouldn't be a problem to let it fester for 6 months, but here we walk around, and even have kinds playing on grass.

Jamie Derry

Hi Mike and Jess! I'm from Northern Ireland, part of the UK. It is open casket for us. The body comes open casket and sits in a chosen family members living room for up to a week while everyone takes their time coming and saying bye and having a large gathering before the actual funeral. The actual funerals are closed casket. My nan was in my uncles living room for 5 days, my grandad was in my living room for 3 days, my great aunt was in her son's living room for 3 days, my friends mom was in her house for nearly a week. It's a nice way to say goodbye in a way that doesn't feel rushed. The priest comes and reads the bible and says the Hail Maries in the homes. The comments below about open caskets not being a thing in the UK probably haven't been to or known any northern Irish people. As far as I know, I've never seen it with the English

Chosos Wife

Karl wanted Suzanne to be buried in the Twix with him. How was that going to work? Would they need a suicide pact so if one of them passes 1st the other has to immediately unalive themselves so they can both go in and be buried at the same time? Or would he or she have to have the coffin dug up and re-opened to put the other in it before re-burying it? Karl really didn't think that one through.

Fordy7169

Not completely. Both my grandparents were in open coffins.

Daz Parker

Cremation is much more common here than in the US, and embalming isn’t nearly as extensive (that took off in the US because of the Civil War so those that died far from home could get home to their families)

Kieran B

Caitlin Doughty of Order of the Good Death has a great YouTube channel and has written a few good books that are worth a read; especially when it comes to how different cultures deal with death and how we tend to try to shut it away and minimise it in the west (some countries more than others) Professional mourners are a proper ancient concept

Kieran B

Mike

By the way, your headshot lighting looks really good with the Halloween decorations in place, you might need to keep that.

Julian

See, that's stuff I did not know.

RegenerationNationTV

Thank you Dan. I sure do have a ton, which I'm very grateful for. I did have to lay all of my favorite pictures of him out when we got home. That helped a lot 👍

RegenerationNationTV

That is hilarious 🤣

RegenerationNationTV

Those coffins are really well done, but they are huge! Youd probably have to buy 2 or 3 plots to stick that in the ground!

Danny

The excrecment of animals that eat majority meat does not decompose the same way cow dung does for instance. It really needs to be buried or put in a bin.

Ian Roxburgh

I sent them the deleted scenes

Danny

This reminds me of a film, probably the best film i’ve seen about death is a Japanese film called Departures. It’s about a guy who’s an out of work cellist, needing money he applies for a job listed as departures thinking it was travel agency work, but when he arrives it’s actually about preparing bodies for funerals. It’s not as morbid as it sounds and it’s extremely well made. It’s not depressing and there’s no grisly imagery. Despite the subject matter, it’s funny at times, uplifting, it’s also emotional in parts and but overall it’s just beautiful. It’s one of those films that really stays with you and it made me think about death a bit differently. I highly recommend it, not as a reaction but just generally to whoever might be interested.

James Ellison

I want to be cremated. My younger sister was two years ago. Her ashes were made into jewellery - I have a heart-shaped pendant, which I wear on a chain. She's always close to my heart in my mind and physically on a special piece of jewellery.

Karina Bailey

Someone found Karl's Twix coffin in an abandoned building several years later 😅 https://i.ibb.co/7gsQfFL/Twix-Coffin.jpg dunno what happened to it. Karl fly tipping again lol

Danny

This is obsuuuurrrrduh 😂😂😂 jess adding uhhhh at the end of sentences is hilarious 😂

Chris Howard

I wasn't talking about here silly

RegenerationNationTV

It's not that uncommon to find Cemetery's over here 250-500 years+ But we've also got about 20,000 burial mounds total around the UK. Anglo-Saxon, Roman and pre roman burial mounds. probably talking 1,500-2,000 years old+.

Andy M7

Damn, he over spent on that passport by 1 whole year. Get that man a refund 😂

Tim

I love that Jess says Karl has a good heart, just 10 minutes after he talked about flytipping his loved ones 😂

Tim

Finally, back to Peep Show 🙂

Cem

I live close by Hastings and unfortunately someone removed the plaque and stole it and a new one was never put back on, it's crazy just how many people from around the world came to Hastings just to see that plaque such a shame some people can't just leave things be, great reaction again Mike and Jess you both never fail to make me smile.

Mark Walton

Karl's dad reportedly passed away 9 years later, in 2022

bobbyshaftowenttosea

Just a wee note, I don't know a single funeral in the UK (that i have attended) that has had an open casket. We tend to have them closed. A viewing is extremely weird imho. Sorry that your last memory of your Dad was that Mike. I'm sure you have some amazing other ones to pull from though.

Dan Padgett

Elvis has passed??? I thought he was living on that island with 2pac?

Daz Parker

After finishing the Ed Gein show .. yep cremation all the way

Gem Lou

"Where are all the cemetery's from 500 years ago? 1000 years ago?" Mike, your country is only 250 years old and the first European settlers landed there 400 years ago, why are you confused about why there are no really old cemetery's 😂

Jeff C

Look, what I'm trying to say is that if I was dying and I decided that even though I'd never particularly been into, say, Enya before but that now I really, really was into Enya and that in fact, I thought Enya was great and that Enya died for our sins and I wanted an Enya themed funeral with pictures of Enya and lots and lots of mentions of Enya, then I think it would be a bit bloody rich for my sister to ban all mention of Enya from my funeral. Yeah?

na plz

Professional mourning is a very old profession , the Jews did this at the time of Christ (see Matthew 9) , it’s also mentioned in the Old Testament and in Ireland people used to hire professional keeners.

Erica

a double bubble? awesome :D karls little plaque at the end is one of my favorite moments of his lol , small but sweet👍

TheHigh

The DVDs have extra deleted scenes

Animalshrew

I was kinda dreading this episode tbh

zStarr