I tend to avoid funerals, because I don't want my last memory of a person to be of their families weeping and their body being put in the ground/their ashes being scattered. I skipped a funeral of a friend for that reason.
We did something similar to your friend's for my grandmother. (Actually, we purposely avoided the word funeral as well). I think it helps, when dealing with loss, to concentrate on the person's life and not their death.
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I tend to avoid funerals, because I don't want my last memory of a person to be of their families weeping and their body being put in the ground/their ashes being scattered. I skipped a funeral of a friend for that reason.
We did something similar to your friend's for my grandmother. (Actually, we purposely avoided the word funeral as well). I think it helps, when dealing with loss, to concentrate on the person's life and not their death.