I hope they do edward's death but i have a feeling they will just do clips at the end of an episode and say, "this episode of dedicated to John Ingles." I could be wrong but GH is focussed on too many other things and newer characters now. I don't mean just OLTL, it's focussed way too much on new Kristina, Kate/Connie, and Joesph Scully.

They're going to do both. John's going to get an "In Memoriam" at the begining or the end of an episode probably next month, and then down the road a few months, he'll be killed off in a big storyline.

Here's my question: did any soap, past or present, put on a funeral for a character that made you think, "That heffa wasn't on long enough to merit THIS kind of send-off!"

I liked B&Bs Taylor's funeral of 2002 a lot. It was beautiful.

Now in retrospect... well....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ESujLhvSZg

Edited September 19, 201213 yr by BoldBeauty

For anyone who was watching then:

What did they do after Luna died on OLTL? Did they have some special New Age funeral like they did for her wedding?

I'm still pissed Gabrielle didn't get a funeral. Bastards.

They're going to do both. John's going to get an "In Memoriam" at the begining or the end of an episode probably next month, and then down the road a few months, he'll be killed off in a big storyline.

Thanks for the information. ah! of course he's going to be killed off...this is General Hospital. Nobody dies quietly anymore. I'm suprised they aren't going to put a stunt man in and have him die in a shower of bullets! I'm just glad the poor guy didn't die a month ago because they would have killed him off during that Jerry Jax "killing through water" story.

Here's my question: did any soap, past or present, put on a funeral for a character that made you think, "That heffa wasn't on long enough to merit THIS kind of send-off!"

I seem to remember people saying this about Babe's funerals.

I seem to remember people saying this about Babe's funerals.

I was so against Dixie having to share her funeral with Babe back in 2007. That was so wrong.

Khan, it sounds like we have similar families. At my stepmother's funeral two months ago, we had my father and his current wife (who wore fish net stockings and a giant hat), her first husband, my stepmother's very married ex boyfriend/lover (father of her youngest child) and his wife, her 33 year old boyfriend (my stepmother was 54), and some man me nor my siblings had ever seen or heard of before who showed up and told us that he was her first love along with other shall we say personal details that we most definitely did not need to know (especially in the middle of the temple at her funeral). This was all before my sister got so hysterical that she ran out of the temple in the middle of the service and her boyfriend had to jump up, climb over people, and run out after her while calling her name as he ran out. We also had a fight at the reception. My family is always keeping it classy.

As for soap funerals, I enjoyed both Asa's fake funeral (Delila!) and his real one (NF's Joey! Cord! Max!!!), Alice's funeral on DAYS, and Lila's funeral on GH (Lucy and Kevin!!!!!!).

Robin's funeral was shameful and so was Colleen's on Y&R.

I second that. I think that there is an actual correlation between soap viewer's and the soap's themselves. I watch soap's partly so I can see how certain character's deal with a certain crisis or unusual situations. Erica, Tad, Dorian and Tracy are a few of my role models.

I was so against Dixie having to share her funeral with Babe back in 2007. That was so wrong.

+1

For anyone who was watching then:

What did they do after Luna died on OLTL? Did they have some special New Age funeral like they did for her wedding?

I'm still pissed Gabrielle didn't get a funeral. Bastards.

It was in North Carolina with just Max, the kids, and her family. Everyone else in Llanview just stood around in Angel Square talking about her.

And yes, Gabrielle needed a funeral.

It was one of those moments where the line faded between Reel Life and Real Life.

That was a wonderful moment.

I was so against Dixie having to share her funeral with Babe back in 2007. That was so wrong.

No, "wrong" is killing off Maureen Bauer on GUIDING LIGHT and then not bothering with an on-screen memorial. AMC's two-fer funeral for Babe and Dixie was ghetto.

I'm suprised they aren't going to put a stunt man in and have him die in a shower of bullets!

Wait, BKuzak. Just. Wait.

And yes, Gabrielle needed a funeral.

No, Gabrielle needed a Viking funeral. I'm talking ship, I'm talking water, I'm talking setting the damn thing on fire. Not because I disliked the girl -- far from that! -- but that's what you do for a force of nature like Gabrielle Medina.

The memorial for Nancy Hughes (and Helen Wagner) on ATWT was pitiful. Just a few of the longtime characters (Bob, Kim, Lisa, Barbara, Susan, John and Lucinda etc) standing around holding candles. I don't think they even mentioned people like Penny, Don or Ellen.

I thought it was OK outside of the shameful Katie propping and Terri Conn's bad performance.

I just never understood why they remembered Susan Hughes but not Penny or Don.

The memorial for Nancy Hughes (and Helen Wagner) on ATWT was pitiful. Just a few of the longtime characters (Bob, Kim, Lisa, Barbara, Susan, John and Lucinda etc) standing around holding candles. I don't think they even mentioned people like Penny, Don or Ellen.

In their defense though, ATWT had practically no time to put her funeral together and we were lucky we got anything at all.

IIRC, Helen Wagner's death occurred just as ATWT was gearing up for their last few weeks of episodes. So, yeah, it wasn't as if they had the luxury of time on their side. On the other hand, while bringing back a host of former characters might have been too much of a logistical nightmare for a production team that had enough on its hands, what was to stop the scriptwriter from throwing in a simple line or two, explaining Penny and Don and their families had to leave immediately after the funeral?

Lack of knowledge of their existence.