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To: Ilaine who wrote (72236)	1/13/2000 8:15:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Who started the funeral business anyway - anybody know? Is it a religious thing? Personally I don't like funerals, I think they are very traumatic (an understatement I know) - the conventional wisdom is that funerals somehow finalize a loved ones death as if closure is unlikely without one... I don't know - I don't think I would want one for myself, thats for sure. My parents are both deceased and there was a large funeral for my mother, because she died in her 50s, it was unexpected... the funeral made things worse for all involved I think but it was an expected convention - something you "just did". My father who was elderly died in a retirement community (not a home, a housing development for retirees) and there no one had funerals so he didn't have one either, just a quiet session at the funeral home with a few family members.

To: Ilaine who wrote (72236)	1/13/2000 9:06:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Geez I remember my parents funerals. My father's wasn't bad, $4.5k but he had a lot of friends and a big todo. Mother died 3 months later and I asked for the same. Cheaper casket, smaller service and $6.5k. The worst part was they said we couldn't have a burial service as the cemetary road was full of snow. I called to get the road cleared and was told it was that the funeral home had never paid to fill in my father's grave. I paid to get it ready. They sure give a fucking to the family.