http://shawnsbidness.com/blog/2007/12/01/funerals-are-necessary/ Forgetting to Remember Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://shawnsbidness.com/blog/2007/12/01/funerals-are-necessary/#comment-754 Tammy Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:34:16 +0000 http://shawnsbidness.com/blog/2007/12/01/funerals-are-necessary/#comment-754 So glad you had plenty of family to surround you through all this. I once told my parents I wanted no service should anything happen to me, but now that I've had to bury two of my grandparents, I've changed my thinking on that. Had we all not had each other to lean on, I don't know how we would have survived the loss. Now when I think back to the days of the funerals, I remember reliving happy memories and reflecting on the good times we had with them. So glad you had plenty of family to surround you through all this. I once told my parents I wanted no service should anything happen to me, but now that I’ve had to bury two of my grandparents, I’ve changed my thinking on that. Had we all not had each other to lean on, I don’t know how we would have survived the loss. Now when I think back to the days of the funerals, I remember reliving happy memories and reflecting on the good times we had with them.

]]> http://shawnsbidness.com/blog/2007/12/01/funerals-are-necessary/#comment-728 Linda Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:46:01 +0000 http://shawnsbidness.com/blog/2007/12/01/funerals-are-necessary/#comment-728 Funerals are most definitely necessary but I really think that we should institute the process of pre-funerals, too. Wouldn't it be nice to know that there were so many people who loved and cared about you before you passed away? Funerals are generally such lovely tributes to the lives that have passed on but don't you think it would be nice to have such a gathering before it was necessary? To be able to talk about how much someone has meant to you, to show that person how many peoples' lives have been touched, and to show him or her that no man is an island and that one life touches many. I would like to hope that the good Lord lets us stick around for our funeral services but just in case he doesn't, wouldn't it be nice to know how much we were loved while we can still hear it? I think that most people don't realize how very many people care enough about them to attend their funeral and I think that's horribly sad. It seems like we should be saying things while we still have the time. Just my thought - and a long-winded one at that! Funerals are most definitely necessary but I really think that we should institute the process of pre-funerals, too. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that there were so many people who loved and cared about you before you passed away? Funerals are generally such lovely tributes to the lives that have passed on but don’t you think it would be nice to have such a gathering before it was necessary? To be able to talk about how much someone has meant to you, to show that person how many peoples’ lives have been touched, and to show him or her that no man is an island and that one life touches many. I would like to hope that the good Lord lets us stick around for our funeral services but just in case he doesn’t, wouldn’t it be nice to know how much we were loved while we can still hear it? I think that most people don’t realize how very many people care enough about them to attend their funeral and I think that’s horribly sad. It seems like we should be saying things while we still have the time. Just my thought - and a long-winded one at that!

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