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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Your great-grandparents would have been to more than a dozen funerals by the time they were 30. And these would have been public events shared by the whole community.
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Aren't you kind of leaving aside the part where death was more common at that time? People are mostly living longer lives now, which means even if I was attending a church regularly, I'm less likely to attend as many funerals as my great-grandparents.
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Which is a new thing. Do you think your great-grandparents mourned when a vaudevillian or the trombone player in a jazz band died? People still grieve today. But they grieve for different people in different ways. Which was peter's point.
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Do you actually have to go to a funeral to mourn someone? Maybe the rituals have just evolved (e.g. writing messages on deceased person's facebook page to express their grief rather than visiting graves).