What is the importance of a funeral or memorial service?
For centuries societies have chosen to hold ceremonies for their dead because those rites serve important purposes. Services bring family and friends together to say goodbye to someone they cherished and allows the community to pay its respects to a person who will be missed. Grief that is shared is easier to bear and a funeral or memorial service provides the time and place for sharing. We are a celebrating a person’s life, not their death. We celebrate the blessing of new life, birthdays, graduations, engagements, weddings, anniversaries and retirement. Should we not celebrate and share the life and legacy of one we have loved and cherished?
