Hypocrisy at funerals

I'm always uncomfortable at funerals. One's when I know the deceased and even those when I don't.
Not because someone's dead... more because "a funeral" doesn't exactly fit with my own personal way of dealing with death.On the surface, I agree, many funerals about how awesome the dead person was can seem extremely hypocritical.
Other things like old friends (or family) showing up for the funeral when they never bothered to see the person when they were alive only add to the surface-hypocrisy.However, once I understood that "funerals are for the living". This hypocrisy all disappeared. Really, as far as I can tell, the entire point of funerals has nothing to do with taking care of the dead... it has to do with taking care of those still living as they deal with death. In that sense... the living can pretty much do whatever they want and it's pretty much impossible for them to be hypocritical towards that reasoning.As for my own personal "funeral", I don't have any specific requests. In understanding that funerals are for the living, my request is to be dealt with in whatever way those still living see best to help them. Personally, I don't see any reason for it not to be cheap and quick... but if it helps someone here to make it lavish and prolonged... all the best to them, I'm sure I won't complain at that point

Heh, no.
That was my way of agreeing with you