being the many believers feel that an unborn fetus is a human being, how come they don't pay it the same respect as they would a baby who dies prematurely or any other person for that matter? don't they deserve a funeral like everyone else?
2007-10-24 09:28:37 · 34 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
just so you know, i'm not saying there isn't a point, or at least a grey area, where you should consider that the life inside of a woman isn't a human. the people who can let a fetus fully develop and then call for a partial birth abortion are sick. no doubt about it. that being said. wouldn't you agree that there is a point, shortly after conception where, you could care less if you're pregnant or not? where if you lost the fetus, it would not be as traumatic as losing it 8 months into pregnancy.
2007-10-24 09:39:03 · update #1
I lost a child a long time ago, and we did have a Funeral. The baby was born dead!!..the baby was almost term...and I still cannot handle that day when it comes around!!
and my daughter-in-law lost a child, and we had tribute Ceremony!!
2007-10-24 09:34:25 · answer #1 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Some people do have funerals.. It all depends on the person..
When my aunt miscarried at 4 months in she had a funeral as a way of letting go and moving on.. the funeral service was short attended by only a few but it gave her a chance to put closure on it and move forward...
When I miscarried at 4 months I chose not to have a funeral I unlike my aunt didn't view the fetus as a fully formed baby and therefore didn't feel the need to have a funeral service for it... For me it was simply a malformed bunch of cells my body expelled because it was malformed..
To each their own... If having a funeral service helps a person move past the sadness they are feeling then they should absolutely go forward with it, If however someone doesn't feel the need then they should not be forces or guilt tripped into it..
2007-10-24 09:41:17 · answer #2 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the moment you find out you are pregnant you feel the same as you would 8 months into it. If it has a heartbeat and at one point moved around and you felt it kick, it was a living person to you. If someone chooses to have a funeral for it, then that's up to them and they would have every right to do so. You don't normally hear about it probably b/c it would be much more painful to have to endure having everyone come to a funeral for a baby YOU miscarried. I mean, lets pour a little more salt on the wound eh? ya know.
2007-10-24 09:52:50 · answer #3 · answered by AngryFalafel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our state won't allow it unless the unborn child is of a certain weight, and many times there is not enough of the child left for one. A miscarriage is usually in the first trimester and does not occur in the doctors office where the child's remains could be preserved, but at home. Beleive me, the world would be a better place if women who had miscarriages were given the same mourning rites as anyone else that has lost a loved one.
My sister lost her baby at 6 months and did not have a funeral because of cost, but she did have her cremated and keeps her ashes in an urn.
And to Neil: sperm and an egg do not have the potential to be a human on their own, it is only when they are combined that they have that potential.
2007-10-24 09:40:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I buy a very expensive coffin once a month. It's so much cheaper to be a woman.....
In all seriousness, some do have funerals for miscarriages, but not many. As for LJ4Bama's assertion that the mother is too grief striken, that doesn't hold up because I bet she'd be pretty grief stricken if it was a 6 month old baby, but there WOULD be a funeral then. It's an interesting question. Do the parents of naturally terminated pregnancies go purchase expensive funerary things like coffins, urns, plots of land, or do they dispose of it like medical waste?
2007-10-24 09:35:22 · answer #5 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because it doesn't even have the form of a human being... It would be too sadistic to take the odd-shaped fetus and put it into a coffin and so on... Plus with all the miscarriages going on there also wouldn't be enough space in the cemetery for all the poor fetuses...
2007-10-24 09:38:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
what about birth and death certificates too man?
actually still-borns usually do get funerals and death certificates.
But at 3-months? no. At 3-months, you probably only knew you were pregnant for the last 4-6 weeks. Anything past the first trimester is iffy, but I think abortions should be limited to within the first trimester anyway.
2007-10-24 09:38:16 · answer #7 · answered by Lorreign v.2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well to me conception is where baby human life begins end of story. Re: your other ?: If I had the misfortune of a miscarriage, I definetly would want a funeral...I agree!
2007-10-24 09:45:48 · answer #8 · answered by ZAZZLE.COM/SAMMIMLAMV* 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some families do have funerals for miscarriages. Especially when its a little farther along, or if the couple had been trying very hard to have a child.
2007-10-24 09:39:43 · answer #9 · answered by ??????? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people do have funerals for miscarriages, especially in the 3rd trimester.
Some of the responses to this question are barbaric. Shame on you for being disrespectful of somone who loses a child. These people are in pain and you wish to poke fun at their expense. You know that transends a religous belief, it is just a lack of respect for humanity.
2007-10-24 09:37:21 · answer #10 · answered by Tim N 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋