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Originally Posted by blazee
I think for some it is for closure. They get to see their relative "resting" peacefully. My family normally has open casket funerals (most of which I don't attend). When the funeral home allows many like to stay the night at the funeral home with the corpse. (Sitting up with the dead) My mother insisted on an open casket funeral for my father. Although, I still don't really see the point, I must admit, he did look better than when I found him.
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Ouch...
My condolences.
Of course all funerals are about closure, and if the open lid works best for people, so be it.
I am somewhat dismayed, though, at some funerals, the condition or appearance of the deceased becomes the subject of gossip for some mourners. I guess this is how some cope with the specter of death. Like some who rely on macabre humour, others gossip.......