Hey, swell family, I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday. So this Saturday I will be attending a funeral and a celebration of life. One's at eleven, one is at two, and the funeral is a legit funeral. There will be a body, there will be a viewing, there will be a repass, a burial, all of those things that are traditional with most funerals. The second one, there won't be a funeral, but it will be a celebration of life
Brian Foreman
@BKFOREMAN69 · 3:32
You. Good topic. As someone that has gone to funeral since I was eight years old. Seven years old. I was almost eight. With the passing of my dad, very vivid memories of that funeral, I was as I still am as an adult. I have ADHD. So as a kid, I was running around outside the funeral home, but I remember my father was a Boy Scout leader, and so the whole troop came in, did a salute
Kitha Larie
@chitchatwithkk · 2:25
I'm from a small town. From a small towns. People do go to funerals. Like everybody goes because everybody knows everyone. And sometimes people go just to be nosy. But my father went to just to pay the respects because he was a well known minister in the community. And so often my family was there as a young child, even teenager, I hated going to funerals. I hated it. Like something about the dead did not sit well with me
Antionette Wiggins
@Queen11 · 4:13
And when I stayed in Georgia, I was learning to dress the bodies, make up the bodies before I left. I was learning the different chemicals you use to embalm. And I just am fascinated in being the ones to help prepare the family to say their last goodbyes. I think with our work. I've been in that service almost 20 some years now. And it was one funeral that I couldn't handle. His name was James. A little james. He was eleven years old
Al Cosby
@Cosbyal4165 · 4:13
So again, I did that and I had somebody in the graveyard actually recorded, so this way I was able to send it to my family and everything, this way they knew that everything was done. So again, I just count my blessings on that and then more. So, just the memories that I had with my sister and everything. But again, do I attend funeral services?
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
They had her ex brother in law, I guess he's supposed to be an elder or something, and he was supposed to be doing the funeral and it was a hot mess. And so I knew he didn't know nothing about the committal and doing everything at the burial site. So I called my pastor and I asked my pastor to send me a picture of the stuff that he uses because our Church of God in Christ has a book that the clergy used and they read from this book
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 4:06
It's not about being selfish, but to think about myself, about being a good person. We are on this land, it's like we are visitors. Someday we will go, we will follow the same path. But what am I going to leave behind me? My family, my friends and people that have been around me. How would they remember me? That's what the funerals make me. That's my takeaway when I attend the funeral. Thank you so much for listening