Lennox Lewis pallbearer?

No I dont.

You're using this to insinuate that Ali doesn't have loving family like yours. It make sense. You have family issues. So you see someone like Ali, loved by the world, and you get jealous that you don't have that kind of love in your life. So you immediately justify it by telling yourself that Ali's family doesnt actually love each other, because they have someone like Lewis carrying the casket.

Except you didn't keep that fantasy to yourself, you posted it here.


It's ironic that you of all people should hold high standards for whom should carry a man to his grave, when you didn't even love the man whose casket you carried!!

Why should anybody listen to you!?

 

WTF

 

Try comprehending

 

I assumed nothing.. I simply made the comment that " pallbearer positions are generally reserved for family and very close friends, " at the very beginning of the thread and long before you showed up and went bat sh-t about me bashing Ali and his family which I wasn't... Then you went off about something with me having family issues or whatever f-ck... Again we have to go back to the comprehension thing.

 

At any rate, this thread has gotten rather dull.... Adios...

 

Say word?

 

There was no bashing in either of those paragraphs.. And you sir are a 19 year old moron with no common sense.. If this were a private funeral you wouldn't be hearing about Will Smith, Larry Holmes or Lennox Lewis carrying Ali's coffin. But since there are cameras on the scene, I'm afraid Ali's distant cousins who none of us have ever heard of sat in the pews while Lewis and co stretch on the pallbearer gloves. Anyone with a shred of common sense could read between the lines, but some of you are so infatuated with the thought of all these guys being life long pals that there's no point in trying to explain it... Do you think that real life is like the movies where Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed hung out and when one of them died the other made it a point to avenge his death? I know every day living tends to get tedious from time to time, but no need to pretend its a fairy tale either..

 

Oooor maybe someone here does know his family?

And to that person you sound like a rambling idiot?

I can tell you one of our assumptions are correct.

 

Actually I personally find the underlined much more reprehensible/hypocritical. I won't go to the funeral of someone I disliked never have ,never will, and I certainly wouldn't entertain the thought of being a pall bearer in such circumstances.

But who am I to judge you?:think

 

Bingo :good

 

I'm not sure of your age, but you're responses are childish.

I deal with estate planning issues on an ongoing basis and there are a host of reasons people make the decisions they do.

Let's start with the obvious. Ali had a chronic health issue for decades, and yet for the most part his mental capacity during that period was fine, so yes, I think he would have had a lot of input into his funeral arrangements, in fact this has already been said on the news.

Secondly, perhaps he didn't want any family members to be pall bears, because if you chose 6 out of 10, you're likely going to have 4 people who's nose is going to be out of joint. So rather than appear to favor certain members of the family, it would make some sort of sense to exclude them from this duty (perhaps even burden).

Lastly, there's no magic formula regarding this, there aren't any real wrong answers as long as the actual funeral mirrors the wishes of the deceased, which in this case, I would be very surprised if it wasn't the case.

 

Is the funeral going to be televised? This is as big as a member of the Royal Familly dying.

 

I heard it will be live streamed

 

This answer is too realistic for this forum

 

Exactly. It's none of our business who is on the coffin and we have no idea what has actually contributed to the decision regardless, not that we need concern ourselved with that either.

I hope it's a fantastic sendoff, worthy of The Greatest.