Funerals

[Poguesy]

A little morbid but who has had the experience of going to a funeral and how many have you had to endure?

How do they make you feel?

I've had to go through four of them so far (old friend, grandmother, brother and next-door neighbour)

I only ask 'cause it's been on my mind recently, for some reason, and there's a lot of young people here so wanted to see how they felt.

 

[Sci-Fi]

I've been to a few, one that really sticks out in my mind was a great aunt, I didn't even know here. I just remember seeing her lying there in her casket. It was freaky, I think it was the first time I saw a person like that. Been to a few after that but they were family members I didn't know that well so they didn't phase me that much. When my dad passed we didn't go to his funeral, it would have been really awkward, my grandfather did not want a funeral for him. Those I was saved from. I did go to an Uncles funeral and my grandmothers just over a year ago. Those were sad, my grandmothers more so, it was difficult. I was trying really hard not to cry cause a cousin of mine I was sitting next to was counting on me for support if she lost it.

I don't like them, I'd rather not have to go to funerals.

 

[LoneKiller]

My grandmother's funeral wasn't exactly a pleasant event. Seeing my father cry just crushed me.

 

[Masson]

I've been to 3 or 4 important onces meaning to family members and well I didin't really feel anything. I find funerals and all the racket that goes with them pointless , theres plenty of other ways to get rid of a piece of flesh , I personally want to be incinerated after I die.
Why do I find them pointless ? Because they are , someones death is not a reason for sorrow but one for joy , their soul is released from one mortal shell and going into another , its the cycle of life.

 

[annik]

I have lost close relatives but I've never been to a funeral. I always end up feeling numb and detached from death. Maybe because I never get that chance to say a final goodbye.

 

[Poguesy]

Forgot about this.

I guess the one thing we can agree on is they ain't pleasent.

Then again who the **** would like them?

 

[SophiaGrace]

Funerals are for closure

 

[Poguesy]

Funerals are for closure

Depends on the situation.

A woman i know lost her son to an unexplained suicide, whilst we have to get answers to my brother's death.

We have no closure but a **** load of things yet to go through.