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Originally posted by wolf
The best services I have gone to have taken the tack of honoring the life which was. Those were Jewish and Native American. Catholic Funerals are a total downer.
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Mormon funerals are unbearable. They're among the most solemn, depressing events known to man. She's getting a Mormon funeral because her kids are Mormon-- she wasn't. I was greatly annoyed when I learned that her daughter planned to put her in a special white dress for the viewing/burial, a dress which is sacred to Mormons and used in temple ceremonies... in the 20+ years I've been close to Norma, not once
ever did I see her in a dress... and the fact that it's a sacred garment for a religoin she wasn't even a part of only makes it worse. Luckily my aunt's son put the brakes on that idea, though it resulted in a heated family debate.
My aunt's daughter is psychotic... as I mentioned earlier, as soon as she heard about her mother's heart attack she was at her mother's apartment going through her stuff, but in addition to that, she also took it upon herself to pour my aunt's appreciable variety of alcohols down the sink while she was at it. This was back when as far as anyone knew, my aunt could have recovered fully. Boy, I'll bet she felt righteous ridding the place of that evil alcohol... which my aunt used for cooking, and on a very, very rare occasion, for drinking in small quantities. Evil! You've got to love a psychotic, remorseless, devout Mormon with a personal agenda.
Sorry. I may be harboring some bitterness there.