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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feels so unnecessarily distressing [/quote]

They're weird, grotesque, and morbid. My VERY Catholic family (both sides) always had them. The younger generations are moving away from them, thankfully.

People would always say that Grandma "looked so good" or they "did such a good job with her." Um, no. She looks dead. And now that is the last visual I will have of her. [/quote]

For some people, the dead visual is a better final memory than the dying visual.  Even the natural dying process (the gasping, the reaching, etc.) has seemed pretty grotesque to me.[/quote]

Doubt most of these posters are present at the dying. Too traumatic![/quote]

Birth is pretty grotesque too. People think if you don't see these things and confront them it is somehow better. Death is a part of life. Denying it doesn't keep it any further from you. Some people need the closure of seeing the person dead. To see that they are truly gone. To see that who they are is no longer there. Some do not. Some people like to see the body because it makes them feel a certain way about their own passing. It is a complicated issue. I am generally of the opinion that keeping the death and dying separate from our lives, outsourcing the care of their bodies and the loss of traditions like mourning clothing have made us more anxious about death and more disconnected from the richness of living. [/quote]

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