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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think your friend would even expect to see you there.
I would only go if she invited me personally.

I would likely only attend a funeral for a parent of either my spouse or a best friend.
Maybe also my children’s other parent if they are still young too.[/quote]

I think you're very unique in this. I've been to 5 funerals in the past 3 months.  All elderly people.  All attended by 500-800 people, primarily friends of the elderly person's children. [/quote]

I have a hard time believing this. No funeral I've ever attended has ever had that many attendees. Perhaps we're not from the same culture, but I think your experience is definitely not the norm. [/quote]

I'm not making stuff up.  
3 were in DC, one was in the deep South, one near Philly.  the churches were packed.

When my own MIL (age 80) died 2 yrs ago there were easily 500 people at the funeral in Philly.  My husband had 30+ friends and coworkers drive up from DC,  none had told us in advance. They just showed up.

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I've never been to a funeral that large. And know very few people who would have that big a crowd drive several hours to support a coworker after their parent's death. That's not common.

Actually scratch that. I've been to two that large or larger. One, a minister's funeral that was that large because their entire congregation came. And then one public official who has hundreds of maybe thousands of mourners, most probably did not know the deceased personally.

But most others have been from a couple dozen people to maybe 200 or so, depending on the age of the deceased. [/quote]

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