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- May 4, 2014
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- California
I totally agree. Yes, it's terrible that the guy died and great that people want to honour his/her memory, but why does it have to be such a huge ceremony? I'd be perfectly content, even if it was someone I was extremely close to, to just have a silent gathering around their grave or something. In fact, if it was somebody I was really close to, I'd rather have a more personal ceremony than have people I've never even met standing on a stage and talking about them. I'd much rather sit around a grave and honour their memory by myself, or with a small group of people, than have a huge gathering with a bunch of people, a lot of whom probably don't even really care (I know that sounds bad, but there are a lot of people like that at funerals).
idk, I've just never been a huge fan of funerals. They don't impact me nearly as much as small, private gatherings around their grave.
I believe someone once said that funerals are for the living, plus we all have our own beliefs in how we'd like our own funerals to be. I kinda like the Tibetan monks idea of sky burials. it's a very back-to-the-earth kinda thing, leaving their deceased out under an open sky and letting nature's winged waste management do what they do best.