Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 02:45     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:Many people in those processions don't know how to get where they are going and are somewhat distraught already -- far safer to let a line of lost, mourning people blindly follow the funeral director. Much safer.


I know this thread is two years old but I have to say that this comment is a revelation. I’ve driven in many funeral processions (including close relatives- somehow I’m never a limo person, always the “extra car we’ll need at the reception” person) and I can’t remember where any of the cemeteries are save for one. If someone had given me directions I certainly would have forgotten them and would never have made it, especially in the days before gps.

My DH and I chose burial plots really close to our house and our church. We figure if people are anxious about driving they can walk there and then pop over to our favorite restaurant and bar across the street right after. Bonus: no drunk driving risk.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 22:02     Subject: I hate funeral processions
With the exception of 1 aunt who can’t drive, My entire family would never let anybody cut in through our funerals. That’s the one thing they get right.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 18:53     Subject: Re:I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love a funeral procession.

It makes people in this self important area take a minute to let somebody matter more for 1second.


I couldn't possibly think of somebody who matters less than a literal corpse. It's not even a "somebody," it's an inanimate pile of meat and bones.


Oh my. This is really psycho.


But accurate. The funeral is for the living not the rotting corpse.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 18:20     Subject: Re:I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love a funeral procession.

It makes people in this self important area take a minute to let somebody matter more for 1second.


I couldn't possibly think of somebody who matters less than a literal corpse. It's not even a "somebody," it's an inanimate pile of meat and bones.


Oh my. This is really psycho.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 18:18     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:I think they are stupid too. Spoiler alert: the corpse could care less.


Couldn’t care less. Couldn’t. Could care less means you do care. Because you could care less.

HTH!
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 18:13     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:Why is this a thing? It’s dangerous to have a bunch of cars running through lights. It makes no sense. Spoiler alert, the dead person can wait for you to get there.

I know it’s mean to complain because someone died, that’s why I’m doing it here.

I just need to get it off my chest. Unless random people are lining the streets to see your casket go by, you don’t need a funeral procession. Little tags on the mirror are not a good reason to suspend laws and risk lives.

Do you know what would be better? Have the hearse wait 20 minutes at the church so everyone can get to the cemetery and then have to wait around for your final fashionably late grand entrance.

Or, put everybody in a tour bus with the casket in the middle and see where people decide to sit.

Okay thank you.


Too bad for you that nobody gives a rat's derriere what you think, what you like or don't like, or what you want.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 18:10     Subject: I hate funeral processions
The objection is not about inconvenience!! It’s about safety!
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 15:04     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:I think they are stupid too. Spoiler alert: the corpse could care less.


Why can't they do these things around 4AM when OP will not be impacted?
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 14:45     Subject: I hate funeral processions
A funeral procession, and elaborate, time-consuming, inconvenient, rituals around death, are important to a lot of cultures and it's kind of insensitive to make light of them.

I suspect that at least one or more people will label OP as racist for this complaint.

Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 14:43     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:These responses are insane and offensive. They’re dangerous because its really hard to tell, at driving speed, what you’re looking at and if you don't see right away it seems like unsafe, unpredictable driving. Almost crashed into one at an intersection because all I saw was one blinking light, no flags. Set a time to meet at the burial.
And don't come at me about compassion. I’ve lost family, couldn’t afford a funeral. There are other ways to honor the dead than on the streets.


Very curious what happened to you that you searched for and found an old thread on funeral processions.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 14:36     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:I think they are stupid too. Spoiler alert: the corpse could care less.


Spoiler alert: you are an a$$hole.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 14:35     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Anonymous wrote:Where I grew up, people pull over on the side of the road, get out of their car, and if they are wearing a hat take it off, to show respect to a funeral procession.

WITW is wrong with you OP. Have some decency for people in grief.


I don’t get out of my car, but I do pull over. I’ve been in many funeral processions and it warms my heart to see people taking a moment to show respect.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 14:15     Subject: I hate funeral processions
I think they are stupid too. Spoiler alert: the corpse could care less.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 13:57     Subject: I hate funeral processions
Omg I started this thread and can I tell you, I think they’ve stopped doing it in my area, where there is a large cemetery (ft Lincoln). I haven’t seen one in ages. It’s great.

Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 13:55     Subject: I hate funeral processions
WTF is wrong with you OP!?@?