Regardless of age, we don�t usually look at funerals

Posted By: Been there on 2008-01-07
In Reply to: This isn't a problem, but I would like some opinions - trose

as celebrations- maybe in the African American group but no matter the age, I think when your grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts die I can say being Caucasian I do not look at a funeral as celebrating a life, only that I have lost a dear loved one and terribly sad.

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This isn't a problem, but I would like some opinions - trose
- There really is nothing to say but "Sorry for your loss." sm - MT24JN
- You are a power of example by helping sm - Anon2
  - To Anon2 - GF
- Funeral - GF
- What I would probably say to them - sm - masy
  - good post. - nm
- When my dad passed away very - Just me
  - Each and everyone one of you...sm - cat
- Is this family black? sm - Flame away
  - I was thinking Italian - I wonder
  - Funeral - GF
  - Thanks, my sentiments exactly. - Posted below.
  - No , they are white and after knowing them - trose
    - I wonder if maybe they have been lucky enough - tnmt
      - Unfortunately that is not the case here. - trose
        Maybe they realize their matriarch has gone - and the family will never be the same
- Regardless of age, we don�t usually look at funerals - Been there
  - Being caucasian has NOTHING to do with it. - tnmt
  - It was very sad when my grandmother died - trose
    - I dont think I misunderstood your post at all?? - Been there
      - We were not celebrating her death, - trose
        totally agree - jlynn
        Good post - GF

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funerals are for the living
nothing done to the body is going to affect whether she 'rests in peace'. Let the mother bury HER dead where SHE wants. She is the legal next of kin.

p.s. her character isn't like too bad if she was a cop so long. don't believe everything the way the media slants it.

Well where I come from they are for funerals and not weddings.
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Why are funerals so expensive?

After finding funeral home service for my grand mother. I think that funeral home is so expensive.

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I have been to 2 funerals where the ashes were buried. sm
I really never understood the reason for the cremation and then the burial but I know it is done. My brother never picked up the ashes for the same reason you marriage went sour.

My family tends to avoid funerals. Instead, several
cremated, and at an appropriate time, their ashes are spread somewhere they really loved being. My dad's were scattered over the ocean. I wasn't able to go, (only 4 spaces on the boat, and my older 1/2 brother (1 of us 6 kids) wanted to go, so I stayed home. Still, I liked it this way because I feel my grief is private - I don't want to put it on public display at a funeral. Also, every time I look at the ocean, a stream, rain, etc., it's kind of nice to know that my dad is part of it.

It really is infuriating to me too! Yes, they also picket soldiers' funerals (sm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church_(Topeka)
They protest many funerals and memorial services of innocent people. It just makes me so sick.