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To: Ilaine who wrote (72242)	1/14/2000 12:07:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, I hear you... but let me say that if the deceased is truly loved and missed, and there is no question about this fact, (as was the case this one time for me), then a funeral just makes things so much more painful - I think anyway. Just looking at the creepy box with the person in it... its terrible. I don't know, maybe there is something about closure that a funeral adds but boy is it shocking to see, depending on the relationship I suspect. In my case it was a parent when I was a teenager... but to try to equate that experience as an adult, say it was a teenage child that dies - does a funeral make things worse or better? I say worse... its an unexpected death, there really shouldn't be any question that the kid was loved and for some reason he dies... the trauma is bad enough and then a funeral.

To: Ilaine who wrote (72242)	1/14/2000 1:07:00 PM
From: Alexander	Respond to of 108807

CB I have been into the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It is amazing how beautiful their tombs are painted on the walls and ceilings and the preparation for the afterlife is magnificent. Nefretiti's Temple is just magnificent in its structure and paintings. It all began there. You are right as usual the custom is for the living not the deceased. I was comforted by my husbands funeral where so many young men he had trained to be drug agents showed up to comfort me and our children. It was a magnificent sendoff for a wonderful man who gave cancer a great three year fight. The Irish have it right. death is not a mourning it is a celebration. The Luncheon he requested for our friends cost almost as much as the funeral :-)

To: Ilaine who wrote (72242)	1/16/2000 2:12:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

The Parsees (Zoroastrians) prefer to leave their dead to be consumed by vultures in "Towers of Silence" in Mumbay and other cities in India. Sometimes the vultures are sloppy eaters and drop portions of the dear departed on the neighbors. Many of the Plains Indians like to expose their dead in the same way. U.S. Veterans of the naval services have always had the privilege of being buried at sea. Since John Jr's burial, this has been extended to all U. S. veterans. Strange, most old-times seamen were horrified of having their bodies buried at sea. Nelson's body was returned to London (in a cask of brandy) to be buried in St. Paul's. There's a good Hornblower tale by Forester about the event. Almost lost his watch.