I hate funerals and...
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "...this isn't helping. Michigan funeral home's drive-thru window allows mourners to pay their last respects on the go
Why bother (Ge
9:6).
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "It kinda reminds me of what passes for "church" these days."
The Eucharist
in a Happy Meal (Mt 24:4-5, 24).
See:
No Sacrifice
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Would you not go due to not being close to the person?"
I think it's more about the loved ones who remain who might be grieving.
"What other reasons would one go or not go to funerals?"
If the grieved
are also dead spiritually (Mt 8:22).
"Most people die by 30 but we don't
bury them 'til 65 or so." ~ Mark
Twain Eze 20:18
Response to comment [from a
Christian]: "It's the phony and
expensive 'hubbub' that funerals
have become that I dislike. I
understand that the loved-ones of
the person who has died often need
that ritual of finality to help them
accept and grieve their loss. But in
the old days we'd do it quickly, and
at home, and at little trouble and
expense to the family.
That's how we should be doing it,
still."
Cultures mourn
in a variety of ways. I think the body should be laid to
rest in burial to acknowledge the
fact that we are made in God's image
and likeness (Ge 9:6). We will be
raised bodily (1 Jn 3:2).
Now, if you've been eaten by a shark
and your bits are scattered all over
the ocean, this could not be helped.
Still, God will gather up all that
is you--your DNA--and give you a
body fit for eternity-- wherever
that may be--a body fit for heaven
and living there
or a body fit for hell and living
there.
I recommend the former.
