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[quote=Anonymous]I think my atheist grandfather was the only open casket funeral I’ve been to that I can recall. I was 10 and didn’t find it distressing. Most of the funerals I’ve been to the person had been cremated ahead of the funeral.

Just before I turned 8, my older sister, who was 22, was murdered by her estranged husband. My mom took my brother and I to the funeral home to see her one last time. When we got there, she decided to make my brother and I wait by ourselves in the lobby while she and my step father went to view her body. That made me soooo angry and I felt angry for years, decades maybe. I had nightmares regularly for years about her not really being dead, or being buried alive etc. I think it would have helped if I had seen her that last time. Much later older brothers told me she didn’t look like herself because they had to use lots of makeup to cover her injuries, so maybe it would have given me a different set of nightmares, who knows?

All that is to say it can provide a sense of closure to see the body at rest, but it should always be the choice of the viewer whether or not to look.

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