• SkyeStarfall
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      1 year ago

      Sure, the modern Western culture of funerals might not be so great, especially the open casket stuff.

      But saying goodbye and maybe having a party with your still living closest ones, can be helpful for many. It’s very much a “life goes on” situation.

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          The high price is very much an exploitation of people’s grief for profit. Using their emotional connection to argue that they “should” pay a lot. It sucks real bad.

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      For my mother we didn’t really have a funeral. The funeral home did the generic stuff and dressed her in just her own regular nice clothes and the family members who wanted to see her just went into a room she was in. It was like a day or two after she had died while we still had to do the paperwork and then we had her cremated. I don’t think funerals, especially open casket and the whole carrying the casket thing is really that common anymore