My First Funeral

Couple weekends ago, I had a death in my extended family. The funeral was last Friday so I drove down to VB on Thursday to attend. It was my very first funeral. I've had a grandma and a good friend die on me in the past, but I was overseas in both cases and could not make the funeral.

While I personally was not very close to the deceased, it was so sad to see others who were. I felt particularly sad for the spouse, who I knew was very close to his wife. I found it difficult to hold back tears at the funeral. I can't even imagine what it would be like if it were someone in my immediate family. I wish all the time I lived closer to my family, but now I wish it more so. It is just too bad tho that my family is scattered. So while the circumstances were bad, the funeral helped bring my family together. It is not often both my brothers and I get together, so I was actually very happy I could make it.

Naturally, during my stay down there, lot of the conversation surrounded death. It's not something I think much about so I was horrified when I heard about how funeral homes try to take advantage of the grieving families. They're like, "Oh, you don't have money to pay for funeral? Does the deceased have insurance? Well then, you can just sign some papers and we'll take it out of the insurance payment." Next thing you know, they've spent all of your insurance money on the most expensive funeral ever. So don't go signing away your insurance to them if it happens to you!