I'm not targeting any particular religion.
2007-01-07 05:28:29 · 12 answers · asked by Bud's Girl 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is just a way for family and friends to get together and eat and remember the deceased. Many times it is the only time all these people are in the same place at the same time.
There is nothing scriptural, or unscriptural about it unless you try to make it a doctrine one way or other. A funeral in and of itself is not religious. It can be but does not have to be.
I have seen biker wakes where it is one big party in honor of the deceased. Nothing wrong with this either if it is in line with the beleifs of the deceased. I have even read news accounts of people getting together and hiring strippers to dance naked in front of the coffin. this may seem tacky to us, but if the friends, and family of the deceased know that would honor their loved one, then even that is not wrong.
2007-01-07 05:39:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my way of putting it,most of America calls it visitation, Yes many also calls it a wake, why I don't know, In 1989 I lost my 1st wife after 21 1/2 yrs of marriage, We had visitation, Her body laid out for 3 days then the funeral. That gave people time for visitation. It had nothing to do with trying to talk to her spirit.
2007-01-07 13:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure as an atheist I fully intend to have one, it will be a celebration of life with the finest wines known to humanity.
2007-01-07 13:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this was a practice in the middle ages .there was a disease where people looked dead but were not. i can,t recall the name of the disease . this is why that practice come to be so that no one would be buried a live
2007-01-07 13:46:06 · answer #4 · answered by r1114@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an important part of the greiving process for some people. For me, logically I know the person is dead, but it's like I have to see them for myself to accept it.
2007-01-07 13:38:39 · answer #5 · answered by DishclothDiaries 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its simply a way to comfort those left living in the time of their loss.
2007-01-07 13:33:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a waste of time and money,why celebrate death?people hovering around the body like its going to rise or something,dead is dead,move on.
2007-01-07 13:32:15 · answer #7 · answered by jen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've only been to one funeral and I was too depressed to involve myself in any wake. I found it a bit tasteless.
2007-01-07 13:42:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awesome. It is a celebration of life.
2007-01-07 13:44:10 · answer #9 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GREAT IDEA!
Why cry if you are sure the person is going UP!
2007-01-07 13:31:17 · answer #10 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋