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Should we have funerals in a church or funeral home? Are there advantages or disadvantages to either?
posted by Greg Hazelrig @ 9:20 AM
5 comments
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5 Comments:
What difference does it make? Most funerals that I have attended have been at the funeral home. Unless, it was person whose funerals would be attended by a great number, then it was held at the church because churches typically hold more people than funeral homes.
Also, if you have it at the church, then you gotta deal with the hassle of moving the body 2 or 3 more times than if you have it at the funeral parlor.
I've about decided to be cremated. I don't want my wife to have to deal with the whole mess.
How interesing this question is today. I will be attending a service for my husband's grandmother today at the funeral home. This is my first ever funeral not at a church.
Unable to walk, and embarrassed by her disability, She was a shut in for several years. After that she lived in the nursing home for the last 5. She was elimated from our church membership for not attending worship. I real sore spot for me and it was for her too.
I am not really answering your question, but I think it would have meant a lot to the family today if we could have honored her life at church.
DBMOM - I am so sorry to hear that. At the time of death the family should be the ones taken care of. I wish your family could have been taken care of better.
By the way, if she were here I would have allowed the funeral to go on at the church whether she was a member or not. And if she hadn't wanted her membership taken away, it wouldn't have been. Again, sorry for the loss and the way you feel you've been treated by the church.
My own personal preference is to have funerals at the church whenver possible. It just, to me, feels so much warmer and homier than the funeral home. But for families that haven't been very connected, I suspsect they are more comfortable at the funeral home (as comfortable as can be, anyway.) Still, I feel like there's more to offer from the church - more of the community.
Thank you.
~linda
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