I hate funeral processions

[Anonymous]

Why is this a thing? It’s dangerous to have a bunch of cars running through lights. It makes no sense. Spoiler alert, the dead person can wait for you to get there.

I know it’s mean to complain because someone died, that’s why I’m doing it here.

I just need to get it off my chest. Unless random people are lining the streets to see your casket go by, you don’t need a funeral procession. Little tags on the mirror are not a good reason to suspend laws and risk lives.

Do you know what would be better? Have the hearse wait 20 minutes at the church so everyone can get to the cemetery and then have to wait around for your final fashionably late grand entrance.

Or, put everybody in a tour bus with the casket in the middle and see where people decide to sit.

Okay thank you.

[Anonymous]

Perspective-when I see funeral processionals it’s a reminder for me to be thankful that I am still here. It’s also a way for me to remember that even though I may be having a wonderful day, someone is mourning a loss. Perspective.

[Anonymous]

Now everyone has those daytime running lights, I can't tell if it's a funeral procession. So don't throw me dirty looks when there's a huge gap and I have to merge

[Anonymous]

I love a funeral procession.

It makes people in this self important area take a minute to let somebody matter more for 1second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love a funeral procession.

It makes people in this self important area take a minute to let somebody matter more for 1second.

And any dead person garners more respect from me than the petulant OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love a funeral procession.

It makes people in this self important area take a minute to let somebody matter more for 1second.

This. Sometimes we need a reminder that there’s more to life than our current list of errands. It will come to an end, for all of us.

[Anonymous]

Many people in those processions don't know how to get where they are going and are somewhat distraught already -- far safer to let a line of lost, mourning people blindly follow the funeral director. Much safer.

[Anonymous]

Are they so frequent that we need to have opinions on this?

Relax, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this a thing? It’s dangerous to have a bunch of cars running through lights. It makes no sense. Spoiler alert, the dead person can wait for you to get there.

I know it’s mean to complain because someone died, that’s why I’m doing it here.

I just need to get it off my chest. Unless random people are lining the streets to see your casket go by, you don’t need a funeral procession. Little tags on the mirror are not a good reason to suspend laws and risk lives.

Do you know what would be better? Have the hearse wait 20 minutes at the church so everyone can get to the cemetery and then have to wait around for your final fashionably late grand entrance.

Or, put everybody in a tour bus with the casket in the middle and see where people decide to sit.

Okay thank you.

The laws actually define what the funeral procession can do and what other cars cannot. So no laws are "suspended". May you have a front row seat to many of the longest processions to come in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this a thing? It’s dangerous to have a bunch of cars running through lights. It makes no sense. Spoiler alert, the dead person can wait for you to get there.

I know it’s mean to complain because someone died, that’s why I’m doing it here.

I just need to get it off my chest. Unless random people are lining the streets to see your casket go by, you don’t need a funeral procession. Little tags on the mirror are not a good reason to suspend laws and risk lives.

Do you know what would be better? Have the hearse wait 20 minutes at the church so everyone can get to the cemetery and then have to wait around for your final fashionably late grand entrance.

Or, put everybody in a tour bus with the casket in the middle and see where people decide to sit.

Okay thank you.

Have you ever attended a funeral of someone close? You don't seem to have a grasp of the actual logistics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now everyone has those daytime running lights, I can't tell if it's a funeral procession. So don't throw me dirty looks when there's a huge gap and I have to merge

Huh. When I read the OP I was thinking that I can't even remember the last time I saw one. Maybe they've been happening around me all along and I just thought it was people with their daytime lights on and I've been ignoring the etiquette. If that's the case...SORRY!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now everyone has those daytime running lights, I can't tell if it's a funeral procession. So don't throw me dirty looks when there's a huge gap and I have to merge

Huh. When I read the OP I was thinking that I can't even remember the last time I saw one. Maybe they've been happening around me all along and I just thought it was people with their daytime lights on and I've been ignoring the etiquette. If that's the case...SORRY!

Funeral processions put headlights on, but now they've been adding black flags and using hazards too in some places. (ugh, clearly I've been to too many funerals).

[Anonymous]

I thought you hated them, like being IN them OP, because a loved one you cared about had just passed...any maybe during the pandemic you had been in too many.

Then I read your OP.

Awful. Get over yourself.

I am guessing those participating in the funeral procession hate them more

[Anonymous]

I went to a funeral recently where the second location was in a tricky spot, traffic wise -- like you had to cross a two lane road without a light. There wasn't an official procession to the location, so all the cars waiting to make that dangerous crossing backed up traffic on the other side and causes serious gridlock. An official procession would have stopped traffic for two minutes to let them all through instead of creating a half hour jam (with many people late for the service).

Preventing gridlock is the reason for funeral procession laws.

[Anonymous]

My being 2 minutes late to pick up my kid or something is a minor nuisance compared to the day of the people attending the funeral.

I send out good thoughts from the bottom of my cold unreligious heart and take a moment to be thankful for my and my family's health.