Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 8:50
#tellSwell | There is PROPER ETIQUETTE for a FUNERAL, do not offend anyone!
The Bereaved family, even though they're just gentle little children, try to respect religious and cultural beliefs and the differences. As a guest, you are not required to participate in any funeral or cultural practices that you do not feel comfortable with. However, you must be respectful of them. For example, you don't have to say a prayer, but you must be quiet and reflective when one is being said
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 1:00
Hi, Evelyn. This was great and super helpful. Thank you for this. This is the kind of thing that some people simply have never been taught. It's sometimes assumed that folks know what to do at funerals and they don't always know. And then again, we you know that phrase common sense? I don't like the phrase common sense. And the reason why I don't like it is because usually it's very condescending
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:38
I had to wear leadership hat, because then his job showed up to CYA, and then I had to be big sister. It was a lot at the time. My brother was not where he is financially today. So I'm on looking up flights. So the fastest flight at a pause, it because I got a call, but the fastest flight for him to get here. Unfortunately, my father did pass a few hours later, so my brother wasn't able to actually make it before then
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:19
So it was really important for me to take my time and talk through that just so that people who might be in the process of losing someone or has recently lost someone or has lost someone a while ago, and maybe they don't know that yet, or maybe they haven't lost anyone yet. My boyfriend and I were having that conversation one time before. He was like, both my parents are still here. My sister is here
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:11
And then, like you said, a lot of people don't know what the proper etiquette is. And at my age of 53, I've seen a lot of death, and I've gone to a lot of funerals. Hopefully, I don't go to any more in the near future. In the near future. But, yeah, some people have no idea
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:21
Thank you so much for responding to this. Well, Angela, I really appreciate it. And you're absolutely know, proper etiquette is not something you just acquire because of common sense. Proper etiquette is acquired because of repetition and people explaining to you why not just how it should be, but why it should be that way. And then, like I said, through repetition you learn know, some people don't ever go to a funeral, but then some people have gone to many
