271 Quotes About Funeral

Someone else’s grief is not for you to solve.

When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist.

I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.

Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they'd done a good job.

A second is a step taken by the living towards death.

Dad kept saying that nothing in the world could be compared with the pain of losing a child. He said that he would not wish even the worst person in the entire universe to see the funeral of his own child. I didn’t fully understand the meaning of those words until I became a mother myself.

Unfortunately, being dead from inside doesn’t reduce the cost of the funeral.

It wasn’t one event, but a series of events followed by years of research adjudicated by panels of experts and committees of laypeople until a decision was finally made: we’ve been going about handling dead people all wrong.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.