Have you ever cried at a funeral?

Question

If yes, what did your friends do?

Answer 1

Of course, however I have only recently allowed others to see it and comfort me, to be honest with my emotions in public.

Answer 2

I dont cry right away I usually cry the most the day of the funeral. The visitation is like they are sleeping and not really gone. The friends just remininsced over the good times we had with the departed. The actual day of the funeral is the hardest and when most everyone breaks loose cause it is always so sad. This is when the friend gets all loving and so forth. If they dont go to the funeral they at least always send a plate of lunchmeat or cheese which is thoughtful. If not flowers. Thats basically what my friends do and yes they cry too. We all shared, loved, and laughed together, now one of us has to depart and we cry over the good and bad times but afterwards move on to the future.

Answer 3

I'm well over 60 and have outlived most of my friends and all of my family, except my wife of 38 years and I have never actually been to a funeral. Funerals tend to draw Christians who always imagine grieving family members are eager to hear their perverted superstitious wisdom. To avoid the inevitable conflict, I prefer to skip the funeral altogether. For example, I did not attend the funerals of either my parents or my sister because my sister's in-laws were devout Catholics. I avoided the funerals of my father-in-law and mother-in-law because too many of their family were fundamentalist Christians. Sometimes, if I considered the deceased a friend, I make a point of visiting their grave alone and then yes, I do cry.

Answer 4

Come to think of it I really haven't cried @ the funeral. When my father passed I was sittiing near my brother and he cried like a leaky faucet I would rub his back. It's something about rubbing the back that alleviates the mood.

Don't get me to some kind of invulernability, I have cried but it was just a few tears. When my mom was in the hospital room and the doctor described how the cancer was eating her up. I went to the restroom and let it all out. Running eyes, snotty nose, the works. I think MOST people prefer to do it privately.
This is my OPINION AND NOT FACT: I think the ones who 'show-off' at the funeral are doing just that. I'm talking 'bout the ones who jumping up and down, trying to get in the casket, hollering and screaming stuff like that.

Answer 5

yes I have cried at a funeral. And my friends have never been to one with me.

Answer 6

Yes, I cried at my brother's funeral. He was killed in a car accident when he was 16(no fault of his). I was 17. My friends cried, too.

Answer 7

YES, Uncle Wayne, I have cried at many funerals...the others are usually crying too.
Peace

Answer 8

I cry at all funerals, not that I've been to many in my life. If my friends were there...they were crying too. I'm always sad at the departing of another, even if I didn't care all that much for them. At my stepmother's funeral, I bawled.

Answer 9

Yes i cried at my grandfather's funeral. My friends were not there. Funny thing is I felt more sorry for me than for him, because he was always strong, and secure, and then he left me, without his strong hand and respectful voice.

Answer 10

oh yes! How could you NOT cry at a funeral?! Well, I guess it's possible to not cry, if you weren't very close to the person, or if you are in that initial stage of shock or denial.

But me, I cry. My friends either comforted me or just kind of ignored the crying and tried to make me feel better.

Answer 11

Yes i have cried at a funeral ...my friends weren't there because it was a family member who died , it was a tragedy I wish he would have never did drugs.