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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not go. I do not show up uninvited to a stranger's funeral. 
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WTF?? People are not invited to funerals unless you are like Princess Diana or someone else famous.[/quote]

PP you replied to. I am not Jewish. I do not go to the funeral of a non-relative unless someone from that family asks me to come. I don't read death notices or obituaries. The only way I'd know there was a funeral is if someone told me. So then I'd need to be sent the time and place. If someone sends me the time and place, I assume I've been asked to go, and then I go. I wouldn't ask these details of my own volition unless it was the parent/sibling of my close friends. My best friend's husband lost a parent, the funeral was in NYC, and I was never asked to go, and I never got the feeling they wanted me to attend. They never sent me any details about it. We're still good friends.

Also, and maybe this is the most important - I do not believe that the crowd at a funeral indicates anything about the deceased or their family. I think that's why some posters think attending stranger's funerals is important. They want a crowd at their own. 
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Some people most definitely want a crowd and it's very obvious.  I have an acquaintance who posted her elderly mother's funeral information on FB.  Maybe a handful of people actually knew her mother, but she was posting it for all to see and expecting people to actually come.  It was bizarre.  My own mother would hate it if I did something like that.  [/quote]

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