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[quote=Anonymous]We have faced this in the last year with my grandparents and may do so in the next few months with my mother. We opted not to bring the kids (8 and 5) to my grandparents' funerals, since both required last-minute travel (10 hour drive each way). We will probably bring them when it's my mother because they are much closer to her and it's not nearly as long a drive. But we are thinking they will come to the service only and not the interment. Another relative will likely stay take them to a nearby playground or back to my parents' house during the interment. I think it would be too upsetting to see the casket lowered. The funeral service itself is very simple and not terribly long, no open casket, so that is doable although obviously everyone will be crying.

If it was one of those big funerals with open casket that you parade past and people potentially collapsing with grief, my decision would be different. I find that tremendously upsetting as an adult - maybe because I didn't grow up with that tradition though - and would not take my kids to it.
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