Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on ""Funerals Are Weird" | From Ku0026C #7" video.

  1. It's creepy.  My French spouse was forced by his mother to kiss his dead great aunt in her coffin, a Breton and French traditon, though he cried.  He became obsessed with death and has never been okay since.  The mother is a sadist. 
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  2. Please provide for your final expenses and have a living will if that is legal where you are.  Do not die intestate.  You cannot be just burned and dumped in large parts of the world, too, I point out.
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  3. ***** That is excellent!  When survivors don't have to worry about bills, they can be there, one hopes, out of desire to BE THERE.  I will never forget a Breton country French funeral in 1995, August, where I FIRST met my inlaws. Three days of pagan rituals mixed with Christianity, and grandma dead at home to be visited for three days!  Lots of Druidic stuff, herbs, a priest, holy water, like sitting Shiva, et c. Right afterwards, I honed my French by listening to them complain about funeral costs, which really are not very flexible in this country.  She also didn't fit out the door and had to be lifted out of the window, relatives cannot be pallbearers, et c. here.  To her credit, she had not only arranged all her final expenses out of a minuscule, miserable peasant farmer income out of a lifetime as an early widow with many kids, but she left a small amount of extra cash to be given as small gifts.  This was utterly commendable.  The actual grief at her passing was still there, but there were no headaches other than the loss of the person. 
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  4. ***** Yes, in aboriginal Australian culture, their names can never be mentioned again, and I recall another culture where the widow must put on a mask for six months, cannot speak, and no one can talk to her.  I also know of another culture where the bereaved are not allowed to bathe, cut hair or change clothes for one year and they become filthy outcasts.
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  5. Tommy Latham I remember at the French funeral for the grandmother matriarch I never met, a priest giving the eulogy was disapproved of by the family afterward because he said that the deceased had had health problems and had become reliant on others to care for her.  This raised some indignation.  I thought, well, as far as I can tell, the old woman was barely ambulatory in her last years and she lived with one of her sons and his wife, so what?  It struck me as odd that such a small thing would be a bone of contention for family.  Also, apparently her own sister had not been informed of her death nor invited to the long funeral, as she was old and in a nursing home and they either thought it would disturb her or they didn't want to bother with schlepping her over to the village.  That, I think, was an error in judgment.  When family members would die, the other family members had a habit of just not telling anyone, which did strike me as weird.  That family hasn't acknowledged me since 2010 so today I am sending the remaining ones a cheerful French "January card" to remind them I am, indeed, still here, and they can kiss my American ass, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
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  6. Tommy Latham Ha ha ha ha!  I'd have to send them to Belgium for "French fries," Ohio for the French dressing, and to the Caribbean for "French toast," but yeah, ha ha ha ha ha!!
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  7. Those are probably her ashes mixed with others.  Not a big deal.
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  8. A good sendoff!  My parents in the USA lied to me and told me they had everything planned.  I should have left the old man in the fridge and not paid for his final crap.  Liars.
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  9. PrimeConsciousness Please, no more of my father, mother or mothers in law, ha ha ha ha!!!
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  10. Just have your final expenses looked after and DO NOT DIE INTESTATE or they will curse you.
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  11. I've always found funerals interesting and have attended in various cultures and countries.  I have some clips up on this on YT and Dailymotion and just went to zeeklytv.  In my own American family, the bodies were just disposed of, not seen, and it was a party, though a thoughtful one.  I am in Europe now and have traveled to see catacombs and ossuaries, et c.  I enjoy talking to Africans and have learned a lot.  I enjoyed Jewish funerals even though they were sad.  I felt that thoughtful wakes were very good in the USA, there was concern for the bereaved, food, money and aid were given, and, oh, I sold life insurance and long term care and disability policies in the USA, where I also did estate planning, with a legal background, and that was really good stuff FOR MYSELF.  I helped people.  Good clip -- thank you.  Uprated.
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  12. HexStickman (A. Mirage) I liked Jewish funerals.  No flowers, a washed body wrapped in linen only and naked, a box without metal nails, put into the ground.  A week of sitting quietly with depravation for the bereaved, sad and solemn.  Then, we carry on.
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