Funeral Traditions Quotes

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Funerals...are for the living.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to hold my head. And then at the end, they have to kick me into the audience and the audience has to keep me up for at least three hits or you have to start the whole service over. No cradling it - I want legit sets.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common.

I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

Let the dead bury the dead.

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.