have you ever wondered how your family would be after you passed away?
Like wonder if you could see your funeral just to see how people would react?
2007-10-16 14:47:45 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Yeah, a lot of people think about that. I know I have. Some crazy people even "stage" their funerals just to sit back and watch how others react. Weird, huh? You're thinking is perfectly normal.
2007-10-16 14:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by Emily D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have thought about this ALOT before. I am the same way and wondered if there was some way that we could all see our funeral and see how people reacted. I almost made myself cry a few times thinking about it because I was thinking of how my mom would react. She is a very soft type person and takes things to heart. My dad is the same way and I basically was picturing them standing by my coffin in a church and crying their eyes out. It was a very sad thought. For some reason I always think about stuff happening to my brothers who live away from home in another province. I picture their funeral and how i'd probably have a nervous breakdown or something. I really don't know why I think about these things but i'm glad that i'm not the only one that does. Thanks for asking this question :)
2007-10-16 21:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie-Lynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is actually not silly. In reality, everyone has thought of seeing their funeral and of course thought of how their family would be after you died. So don't think your question is silly, because I can assure you, EVERYONE has thought of this before.
All it means from a psychological standpoint is that your growing as a person and becoming independent. While may people think that thoughts like this parallel depression, I tend to think that this typically reveals that your a deep thinker of the social environment around you. If I were to guess I'd say you are between the ages of 13-18?
2007-10-16 21:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by wilsona43 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw this movie when I was a kid called "What a Way to Go" and there was this scene where they are carrying a casket with the deceased down a long flight of stairs and they drop it and it slides all the way out into the street. I nearly wet myself laughing about that and decided then that I wanted my funeral to be funny so that my loved ones would laugh instead of crying. I know that when my mother died, my dad had me nearly in tears trying not to laugh during her funeral when a fly started buzzing around her casket. If anyone else knew what he was saying they would have died of shock, but I thought it was funny. So I would like to be around to see my loved ones laughing at my funeral.
2007-10-16 22:08:17 · answer #4 · answered by kcpaull 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes...I work for a cemetery and one of the workshops that we did had us really think about all of that. They made us think about what and who we would want with us in our dying moments. Also where we would want to be.
They also had us visualize our own funeral and what we would and wouldnt want. Who we would want present and how we would want the mood to be. Obviously they will have a just lost a good friend or family member but personally I would rather them celebrate my life than to dwell on and be sad about my passing.
2007-10-16 21:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by faith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it will make a difference in their life that might also change their life, but it will also depends on why you are dead...
but for me the important thing is that I have to leave my family that they could life without problems I left and instead of it life with all the thing that I left them and have even better life.
2007-10-16 23:58:26 · answer #6 · answered by Shino Sanada 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody will be sad, depressed....just as most families...but time will kill the pain. It would also depend on who you're leaving behind. I mean I'm not a wife or a mother..leaving children would hard for the child to cope with.
2007-10-16 22:10:09 · answer #7 · answered by n.s. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*guilty laugh*
I used to stand in front of the mirror when I was 13 and picture my funeral and how everyone would be crying cuz I was gone. Then I'd watch myself cry in the mirror because I felt sad that it was my fault that my family and friends were crying in my daydream.
2007-10-16 21:54:12 · answer #8 · answered by equal_opposites 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I die I want to be fired from a cannon while on fire, into the Pacific ocean. So yes I wish I could see everyone react to that.
2007-10-17 20:36:36 · answer #9 · answered by headcheese 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not silly. I definitely think about that. I think everybody does at some point. I'm curious just to know how different things will be when I'm gone.
2007-10-16 21:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋