Funerals
Posted on: February 13, 2009 - 2:44pm
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Funerals
I just got home from a funeral of a 22 year old. She graduated high school with my youngest daughter. I have been to very few funerals with my children, and this was amongst the worse. I told my daughter before the funeral that if it involved any aerobics I would be leaving. It did, stand up sit down, prayer followed by more stand up sit down. Oh did I mention it was in the catholic church also. Of course the young woman was not a religious person, but her parents are. I guess we don't care what her husband thinks. He just went along with her parents wishes.
After all these years I still can't do a funeral, I will never do a baptism. Somehow I can manage to sit through a wedding though.
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I recently went to my first funeral in 30 years of time on this planet(guess I'm luckier than most in that regard). I was obliged to go, as it was a good friend of mine who had lost her baby unexpectedly(not so much unexpected to me, but definately so for her). It was a hard core religious(catholic I suspect, but I wasn't caring enough to look into it) ceremony. I was the only one in the building to refuse a bible and verse book(whatever you call the thing with songs to help the audience sing/chant/whatever along), though I was not the only atheist or agnostic type there. When questioned about it by various people, I simply stated that I was there to support my friend, not her church.
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This is a recurring theme in the winter time. It seems every year at this time, someone mentions funerals.
About a year ago: Funerals are Irrational
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When I get around to making a will, I want to leave specific instructions to put me, unembalmed and having any useable parts removed, in a burlap sack or other biodegradeable item, put me in the ground and perhaps plant a tree on top. Then everyone has to go off and party and get on with their lives. (Oh, and they have to wear pink tutus during the funeral.)
-Triften