271 Quotes About Funeral

Death avoidance is not an individual failing; it's a cultural one. Facing death is not for the faint-hearted. It is far too challenging to expect that each citizen will do so on his or her own. Death acceptance is the responsibility of all death professionals - funeral directors, cemetery managers, hospital workers. It is the responsibility of those who have been tasked with creating physical and emotional environments where safe, open interaction with death and dead bodies is possible.

Send not to knowFor whom the bell tolls;It tolls for thee.

Hay cosas de las que la gente nunca habla. No me refiero a las cosas difíciles, como el amor, sino a las más bochornosas, como por ejemplo que los funerales a veces son divertidos o que es emocionante ver arder un edificio. El funeral de Michael fue maravilloso.

Wining and dining instead of crying and wailing at a funeral in sympathy with the bereaved is a mockery of condolence. If the dead are capable of anything, they will zip up the mouth of everyone in attendance except those crying and condoling.

Everyone is no-one-to-be.

It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.

The shorter one’s life, the longer the list of loved ones one will not have had to bury.

In few places is there such a high concentration of hypocrisy as at a writer’s funeral.

There is a time for passionate dissent, but there is never a time for dancing upon a grave.