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I find funerals to be off-putting, in general. Memorial services, sure. Wakes, great. But the idea of slapping some clay and makeup on a corpse to display it in a church for a bunch of crying people is just weird. Embalming is weird. The amount of money spent on caskets is weird.
That said, I understand the need for closure and all that, so I'll let my family do what they want with my carcass when I'm gone. But for me, when my grandpa died (I was 16) and I literally felt his soul leave the room, I had more closure than any amount of pre-burial pomp could've provided.
Oddly, when my nana died in 2003, the sense of her presence (and her departure) weren't nearly as strong. In the intervening years I had made a conscious effort to squelch my awareness of things psychic. Good for not being bothered by ghosts, bad for general awareness.
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Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh
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