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FUNERAL ETIQUETTE
DON’T do the following: Be afraid to remember the good
Bring your mobile phone - Your times - Funerals are obviously a
phone ringing will be highly time of grieving and mourning, but
inappropriate and will cause a remembering the good times helps
disturbance, so turn any ringers or with the healing process. Sharing
notifications off. Even better, leave a funny and appropriate story is
your phone at home or in your car, a acceptable, and in some cases
funeral is not the time to be texting exactly what the deceased would
or checking your messages. have wanted.
Allow your children to be a Overindulge - If food or drink is
distraction – From a very young age served, do not over do it. Have a
children are aware of death, and if bite to eat before you go to the
the funeral is for someone that was service, you do not want to be that
close to them they can be given guy parked at the table. If alcohol is
the option to attend. However if it is served, limit yourself to one or two,
not appropriate for your child to be do not become inebriated and risk
there, and if you feel they will cause doing something inappropriate.
a commotion, leave them with a
babysitter.
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