Joyful Remembrance Quotes

The Day of the Dead is a joyful celebration when you can connect with and remember your ancestors.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

I wouldn't want my funeral to be a sad, sappy thing.

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.