Funerals

[coccinelle]

Whose funerals to you go to? Apart from relations, friends and close neighbours. Would you go to a friend's father's funeral even if you didn't really know him and take off time from work?

[ummmm]

I agree with beckersjay. My Dads funeral was packed....over 450 people. It made me feel incredibly proud. It also made me realise that it's a comfort for the family to see people paying their respects, for what ever reason. I would go to a funeral, if only for that reason.

[Buenchico]

I usually refuse to attend any funerals (even those of relatives and friends) because I regard them as completely pointless. My will states:
"I desire that my body be cremated without ceremony and that my ashes be disposed of, also without ceremony, in any convenient refuse receptacle."

I attended my mother's funeral only because it seemed simpler to do so than to argue with family members about my failure to do so. I attended my father's funeral solely because I was paying for it. The only other funeral I've attended was that of an aunt, where I thought that it would be nice to see my cousins again.

[ummmm]

Did you read my answer Chris?

[Buenchico]

I did, Ummmm, but the concept of "paying one's respects" is totally meaningless to me.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. I see no point in any ceremony whatsoever.