... this isn't helping.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/df60f126c15b4a6f895032acbb7779ca/US--Drive-thru-Viewings
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/df60f126c15b4a6f895032acbb7779ca/US--Drive-thru-Viewings
I don't know what to say!
Perhaps next they'll allow you to order a hamburger while you're there or something.
Made me think of my aunt. Years ago she and I were in the same funeral home limo on our way to the cemetery to watch my great grandmother get planted and my aunt said "I hate all this crap. When I die just toss me in the river and go out and have a beer."I laughed out loud over that comment!
It kinda reminds me of what passes for "church" these days.
I think it's more about the loved ones who remain who might be grieving."Would you not go due to not being close to the person?"
If the grieved are also dead spiritually (Mt 8:22)."What other reasons would one go or not go to funerals?"
Cultures mourn in a variety of ways. I think the body should be laid to rest in burial to acknowledge the fact that we are made in God's image and likeness (Ge 9:6). We will be raised bodily (1 Jn 3:2).It's the phony and expensive 'hubbub' that funerals have become that I dislike. I understand that the loved-ones of the person who has died often need that ritual of finality to help them accept and grieve their loss. But in the old days we'd do it quickly, and at home, and at little trouble and expense to the family.
That's how we should be doing it, still.
Made me think of my aunt. Years ago she and I were in the same funeral home limo on our way to the cemetery to watch my great grandmother get planted and my aunt said "I hate all this crap. When I die just toss me in the river and go out and have a beer."
Well my aunt died a few years ago and I was a thousand miles away and could not attend her funeral. So I took her up on her word. I went to a local pub ordered a glass of wine and raised it in a toast to her. That was the best funeral I ever attended.