Eliminating Emotion

[Land_Owner]

Trump, Obama chatting and laughing at Carter funeral


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When 50% of human emotiion becomes the Left's focus of ridicule, it is a mental derangement that CANNOT be denied. Everybody laughs. Everybody cries. To RIDICULE LAUGHTER is laughable in itself.

[ironglow]

  A funeral is a solemn occasion, but it need not be completely devoid of laughter.  Laughter is part of any healing process.

  ..And it breaks tension when share quietly by attendees..

  I deliver the funeral address at all our legion funerals, and usually slide in  a couple light jokes,since loved ones need a bit of lightness at
   such times.

  I also am often called upon by non-Legion, local families to preside at funerals.  In most cases i have at least a nodding acquaintance or more with
   the deceased's family, and know their nature. If in any doubt however, I will quietly ask the  nearest of kin, if they would like a spot of humor.

    I am considering adding a bit of levity to my own funeral, when that time arrives. ...Because I don't want folks to be glum at that time.

  As we find St Peter referring to his body as a tent (2 Peter 1), today's Christians often refer to our bodies as our "house"..

  Thus, I may decide to have this song by Stuart Hamblin, sung or played at my funeral;

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiFnMEaVMzM

  It fits, when we know we are headed for Glory Land...

[darkgael]

“Because I don't want folks to be glum at that time.”
A truly great sentiment. Celebrate a life well lived.

[Bob Riebe]

Dead is dead, funerals are for the living.
Now how deserved  sympathy is, depends on how close one is to the surviving person/s, or the reason for the funeral.

Now some who have lost a life long , or decade/s long companion, need to be comforted, but that does not mean all attending should act like they just lost their pet puppy.
Respect for the sake of respect is a good idea.
I have been at enough occasions where people make humorous remarks of the deceased or suffering person, it is NOT a good idea to do so with those closest to the loved but if the humorous remarks are often based on  a fact of ones life, so be it.

Fifty years ago when I was badly injured, causing phycal changes, after I got out of the hospital I would make what some woulds consideerd improper jokes about my state of affairs.
Some people could not figure out how I could say that stuff about my problems at the time.
Life goes on.