Why More Families Are Deciding Not to Have a Funeral for Loved Ones

You might think it’s about the money, but something cultural is also happening here, and the trend is not good or healthy.

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My mother’s second husband died after her, but his family decided there would be no funeral, which was a shame. It took a few years for my siblings and me to like him, but we wished we could have said goodbye differently. The…