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[quote=Anonymous]For my family the viewing and the wake mean the same thing. The night before the funeral you go to the funeral home and look at the body and pray. Instructions are given for the mass and funeral the next morning - like a 10 o'clock mass and then everyone caravans to the graveyard. After mass at which some family members may be invited to do a reading or two everyone goes to the gravesite and a priest says a prayer. In our family someone says a eulogy at the gravesite. If applicable taps are played and the wife is given a flag by a military reservist. After everyone goes to a Maggianos or other restaurant with a lot of seating and everyone eats and the mood is lifted. People laugh. Kids take off their ties and run around and everyone basks in the realization that they like their remaining family. Kids go to all. See the body. No big deal. Been to literally twenty or more in the last few years. [/quote]
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