Funerals Are For The Living
Funerals are for the living not the dead. Despite always being the guest of honor, the dead have never attended a funeral. It is only the living that attend funerals and go about the rituals of death. The dead do not experience death, the dead experience dying, it is the living that experience death.
Funerals are thought of as for the dead, but the dead do not partake, they are no shows at the occasion. The funeral is for the living they are the ones who go about the funeral. Sure, when the dead were living they may have had requests about the nature of their funeral, however, these requests go about in a living fashion. The dead made living requests because they want their funeral to go a certain way, like macabre event planners. However, the dead makes these plans knowing they will not show up to the event. The dead may want to be honored or remembered in a particular manner, but that is just for their hopeful living ego. This hopefulness and desires are utterly decimated upon dying. The dead will not experience their honoring, remembrance, or any other emotion had here after them. The emotions had at a funeral are living emotions. When the dead thought about their funeral they thought of the actions of others, others that would be living unlike them.
The dead do not need funerals, what for? Funerals are a living ritual. The ritual of a funeral does not affect the dead, it only affects the living. The dead will have no memories of their funeral, but the living will. Only the living could have invented the funeral. What do the dead care of their funeral, they are dead. Only the living can care about funerals. Those at a funeral are not concerned about the dead, why concern over that which can’t be concerned, the funeral is a living concern. Only the living engage with funerals not the dead. Funerals are not for the dead but for the living.
