does any one know what the significance of funerals? And if so why ?

Question

Seems to me that funerals are like just for the living. I think its a dead expense myself. If you are dead you are dead. Just a ritual that is un needed .Let me hear more. There is more to death and those funerals are wasted just for those who we leave behind.

Answer 1

It is for the living to pay respects for the one who is dead. I can understand this. But, what I don't understand is the cost. You know an average funeral in the U.S. is $6000.00.

That just seems ridiculous to me. Someone you love has just died. You want to pay your respects and the funeral home wants to rob you blind for this. I see no reason for the outrageous cost.

I knew someone that used to work at a funeral home. The casket alone is marked up like 200% above cost.

A person deserves to be remembered after his death, but many only have grave side services because they cannot pay the absorbent prices the funeral home requires.

Answer 2

It's a process designed more to help the living than anything else. I have played for almost a thousand funerals in my career and the one thing most of them have in common is the effect of closure they have on the family / friends.

Death, especially one not 'expected' is very traumatic. By having a funeral / memorial service one is forced to come to the realization that the deceased is gone (not as simple as it sounds). It's a time to remember them for the person they were and for people to share in that feeling of loss. It's one step to recovery.

In other practices funeral rituals were necessary to progress to the next plane / life. Then they were are much for the deceased as the living.

From experience I have found that a 'memorial' is more cleansing and beneficial than a 'funeral'. Yes, it's just a different term but the philosophy between them is different and those planning the service / event will come at it from a slightly different persepctive.

Blessings,
Zimmi

Answer 3

It is a way for the living to find closure and to remember the good times they shared with the deceased. I think the best funerals are those where you sit around after and have a few beers and laugh. I have always said I want no tears at my funeral, laugh at the stupid things that I did, and the fun times that "we" had. My grandfather had a funeral like that, and I must say it was the best way to celebrate his life. He really would have enjoyed it.

Answer 4

Funerals appear to be another path to the God of greed on the part of Churches and funeral parlors. In the days of my Texas youth__may it return in my next life--we would sit with the body over one night, then take it out to the family plot and do the burying. We would then go back to the house and have a wing-ding of a wake where we would get drunk and tell all the good, bad, and funny things we knew about the deceased. Then have a big meal in the deceased honor.

You can't drag me to a funeral these days.

Answer 5

Funerals are used to bring together the various points of a life. Life is about connecting. Connecting experiences and Connecting with people.

A funeral is a way to look at the whole dot-to-dot picture once it is finally complete. Or perhaps a funeral is to see the whole novel and find out where your individual chapter fits in.

By telling tales of the dead's life, we relive memories and gain new ones of our departed loved one. We also gain a sense of understanding on where we are and how our individual lives connect to whole of existence.

All of this together forms closure, and helps in the mourning process.

Answer 6

Funerals are used to bring together the various points of a life. Life is about connecting. Connecting experiences and Connecting with people.
A funeral is a way to look at the whole dot-to-dot picture once it is finally complete. Or perhaps a funeral is to see the whole novel and find out where your individual chapter fits in.
By telling tales of the dead's life, we relive memories and gain new ones of our departed loved one. We also gain a sense of understanding on where we are and how our individual lives connect to whole of existence.
All of this together forms closure, and helps in the mourning process.

Answer 7

Funerals are our way of showing respect for The deceased. I also think it is a way to show support to the family. It is a hard thing to loose someone you care about. To have the love and support of your friends and the community are helpful to the grieving process, not only at the funeral but ,in the days after.

Answer 8

the element approximately christian funerals is to declare see you later to the departed man or woman (or human beings if that's a shared funeral), pay your respects, and pray that they get to heaven quicker (a minimum of a few if no longer all christian faiths have faith in purgatory the place your soul is cleansed extra time once you're reliable adequate to stay out of hell yet no longer reliable adequate to bypass directly to heaven and praying for them will help them get cleansed quicker)

Answer 9

funerals are for your loved ones to come and pay respect to you and for them to get some closer in telling you good bye

Answer 10

To mark the passing of someone who recently died, and to celebrate or remember their life.