Present Your Dead
Date Friday, March 29, 2024 - 08:25 AM PST
Topic Experiences


My grandfather passed away on Friday.

Today we went to the funeral home for the visitation. Now mind you this is my first funeral and I’m not taking it so well especially since it is my grandfather but there is something I need to get out.
Why the HELL do you fix a poor deceased old man up with paste and make –up and sit him in a casket to be presented to anyone who might wanna come by and have a looksie. For fucks sake it’s like my grandmother could be standing by the casket going “Hey 3rd cousin who has never actually met my husband… come look at his dead corpse!” It made me sick. People who didn’t even know the guy came by and put on a make façade and walked up there… looked at him and left! Now I’m sorry… religious or not I have come to the conclusion you shouldn’t doll up a dead body and stand him up on a pedestal for people to look at. Is that not moral common sense?

But people do it! No wonder people want to be cremated. I don’t like the idea of some strange guy going by my corpse and looking at my shriveled boobs.

No don’t get me wrong... I understand CLOSE family coming to say goodbye but not Joe Blow from down the damn street who takes walks in the morning and sometimes waves as he passes coming up at such an intimate moment.

Now this is the kicker. The thing lasted 3 hours… people cried at first and met the family etc etc… I was the ONLY one still tore up 1 hour into it… my aunt had the fucking audacity (his daughter) to come up to me and ask the stupid question “What’s wrong?” Now I just looked up at her like “What the fuck do you think, you heartless bitch?” After about 2 hours my cousins who are college students were laughing and joking with the rest of the family all the while my grandfather was presented nicely with soft lighting and flowers. They acted like it was a damn party. I kept looking over at him thinking, “I am SO sorry” But hell... it’s like at his birthday party, if anyone actually shows up, they pay him no mind at all.

At the end one of my grandmothers' sisters goes “Gosh can we go NOW?”

All in all everyone acted like it was an everyday thing... like MY fucking grandfather dying is just blasé.

Has anyone ever been to a funeral where things are like that? The funeral is still tomorrow and the visitation was today. I can’t WAIT to see how lovely they are about it then.


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