General Discussion

One thing- people of different faiths go to all sorts of funerals, not a big deal. I have not been to many, just a few wakes for christian funerals as I recall.

The only time it was a problem for me was when at my mother's funeral at the funeral home part, they set up a cross even though we told them she was not religious, lol. I told them to take it down- that pissed me off. There wasn't even any service there. It was all at the gravesite and then our home.

She was baptized in Wee Free Kirk but was a nominal christian and was never religious. I like the Jewish funerals where you say the kaddish at the gravesite and then sit shiva. My grandmother had a synagogue funeral and my grandfather was the only one who knew the kaddish by heart in Hebrew. During the ceremony first the Rabbi talks about the person and then people who knew the deceased get up and talk about them, similar to christian and other faith funerals probably. My father was pissed off at what the rabbi said about his mother 😹