"Funerals are for the living." Discuss.
I placed this question on my IG and most of my friends slid it to the max - funerals are for the living. Few left it right in the middle, and one at the 65-70% mark - giving some flexibility though leaning towards the majority. I acknowledge everyone's response and POV, and taking some time to process my experience helped too. Visiting my grandmama (my father's mama) at her house, in the hospital, and at her funeral made me wonder about a lot of things. I wondered about my grandmama (as a mama, grandmama, and child of god), about seeing my father (as a son, father, friend of his friends, and husband), about my relationship with my grandmama (and my relatives and my immediate family), about my mother (and her with her family), about the fragility of life, about religions, about funerals, about my own and my fam's funeral and definitely more that I might have forgotten at this point. Growing up, I didn't have a good impression of my relatives. In fact, the narrative that
