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[quote=Anonymous]We brought our kids, then aged 3 and 4, to my grandmother's funeral.  Our older son also attended another great-grandmother's funerals at age 1.5.  The former had a viewing period before the service and we brought the 4 year old in for that part at his own request and he was able to see the open casket briefly before the casket was closed and mass began.  The kids were not close to the deceased in either case, so I thought it was a good sort of introduction to the concept of death without it being terribly sad for them.  We are very lucky that all four of their own grandparents are still with us, but I cannot imagine a scenario where we would have excluded them from a grandparent's funeral.

FWIW, we attend mass weekly, so our kids are already familiar with appropriate church behavior, and we are lucky that they do not generally give us much trouble at mass, so we were able to go into it knowing they would behave appropriately.  If they were the type to misbehave in church, I might take a different approach, although most likely that would just mean sitting near the back so they could be easily taken out as needed.

Our moms (the daughters of the deceased) were very happy to have the kids at the funerals as that sort of reminder that life goes on, etc.   
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