When attending a funeral, do you cry for the living or the dead? Why?

Answer 1

the living. i attended a teacher's funeral and i cried for all of the students who would never have him as their teacher.

Answer 2

I usually don't cry at a funeral, I usually shed my tears at night or when I'm alone. But when the time comes and I do cry, it's for both. I cry for the dead, because I miss them, and think it's unfair for their lives to be over when there are so many things they still could have done.
I cry for the living, because of the pain that they are going through missing the dead.

Answer 3

I cry for both: I cry for the dead because I miss them, and I cry for the living, because each death reminds us of our own to come and all the others too. It's good to cry with other people at a funeral: this sense of communion is soothing. But I also like to go for a drink or a meal afterwards (that's what we do in my family). It's also comforting.

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Answer 4

The dead guy, I been to a couple funerals and knew the deceased men. I don't literally cry, that's not appropriate for Men, but I feel for them because they're young and still had a lot of hopes and dreams.

Answer 5

Both. You cry for the living because of the pain they are feeling. You cry for the dead because they won't be around anymore, physically. I don't know about spiritually.
I can honestly say I felt my grandfather's presence when he passed on and I haven't felt that since. I was close to him. I take it that he's in a peaceful place now. I felt like he was saying goodbye.

Answer 6

This depends: At funerals for people I have loved - my father, aunt, uncle, grandfather and grandmothers (I never knew the other grandfather) my tears have been equally for my own desolation and the loss of the deceased. At funerals for people less close to me, I seldom cry, but when I do it is in sympathy for the feelings of the survivors.

Answer 7

Well, the last time I was at a funeral I cried for the people that died and for the family. They were just kids, all siblings, they died in a car crash. It was so horrible. But I know they moved on to a better place.

Answer 8

I never cry for the dead, especially if they are believers - they are in a beautiful new place with a new and healthy body and with our Lord. If there are tears, it is only for the pain of the loved ones left behind who will miss the deceased. But if they are believers, they know they will mourn but they also rejoice for the one who has passed on.

Answer 9

I cry for myself and every one else, because the person who has passed, is no longer in physical form and we, as humans miss being able to touch them and talk to them/hear their voice.

The crying is the realization that something will never be the same again and our loss in realation to that reality.

Answer 10

You cry for the living, they are the ones that will miss the person who has passed on, the ones that will remember, the ones who have their hearts broken.