Name: Anonymous 2007-12-10 3:29
We spent about an hour at the funeral home. Then we came home.
Overall, this was a deist and PC version of a memorial service without the usual inflammatory names like "Jesus". Instead, everyone had to light candles. Then the slip of paper with Dad's name on it got put into a "soup bowl" since they were using the Tear Soup video for bereavement. According to the MC, there is a mock cremation on Mother's Day when all the slips of paper are burned and the ashes interred at the foot of the appropriate tree. We weren't told about the afterlife and it seemed inappropriate to openly discuss Buddhist sentiments about it.
I noticed the MC had a Scots accent.
I felt really glad that the Christian evangelists stayed home and the Muslim hardliners were at the mosque. For the bereaved crowd was more laid back than I expected.
Overall, this was a deist and PC version of a memorial service without the usual inflammatory names like "Jesus". Instead, everyone had to light candles. Then the slip of paper with Dad's name on it got put into a "soup bowl" since they were using the Tear Soup video for bereavement. According to the MC, there is a mock cremation on Mother's Day when all the slips of paper are burned and the ashes interred at the foot of the appropriate tree. We weren't told about the afterlife and it seemed inappropriate to openly discuss Buddhist sentiments about it.
I noticed the MC had a Scots accent.
I felt really glad that the Christian evangelists stayed home and the Muslim hardliners were at the mosque. For the bereaved crowd was more laid back than I expected.