How Many Funerals Do You Attend in Your Lifetime?
How many? 5-6?
Isn’t this the reason why death seems such a distant thing and that’s why we tend to forget that we’re here only temporarily? Yes, we hear about death every day: but it usually happens to people who are not related to us. That’s why we are fooled into thinking that death is something which doesn’t really happen very often.
Imagine people we know were dying around us constantly – like we’d have to attend at least 5 funerals a year. Wouldn’t it be a reminder to us all that we are here only temporarily?
Just a thought…
Best answer:
Answer by Ben
It depends on where you live. If you live in a gang infested neighborhood such as L.A. where killings are the norm, then you will attend over a dozen, but if you live in a nice area where people live good, then you will attend few.
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I have only been to about three of them in my entire life.
I have been to about 50 funerals (we had a lot of them when I was growing up,) and I have rudely skipped about 25 funerals, because after the height of the AIDS crisis, I got kind of worn out on deaths. But lately I have enjoyed the chance to dress up, and funerals can be pretty unusual affairs.
I am an uncle 45 times and I have about 20 other close relatives living, so I suspect the number I will attend will go up dramatically soon. Or I may just have one more to attend.
I find funerals a bit like bingo these days. More funerals makes you more IMMUNE to contemplating your mortality, not the other way around. They become just an activity, and lose their significance.
I will let you know when my lifetime is finished. I won’t have an answer until then.
5 we are temporary one minute your here the next moment your gone =)
There is an the old saying goes like this: You know your getting older when you attend more funerals than you do weddings.
Life in the flesh is temporal, however,life in our spiritual bodies can be eternal.A word to the wise is sufficient.
4, so far.
One was enough to get the point.