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Don’t do the following at a funeral: • Don’t be afraid to remember the

• Don’t bring your cell phone – good times – Funerals are obviously
Your phone ringing will be highly a 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 exactly
funeral is not the time to be texting or what the deceased would have wanted.
checking your messages.
• Don’t overindulge - If food or drink is
• Don’t allow your children to be a served, do not over do it. Have a bite
distraction – From a very young age to eat before you go to the service, you
children are aware of death, and if the do not want to be that guy parked at
funeral is for someone that was close the snack table. If alcohol is served,
to them (grandparent, aunt, uncle) limit yourself to one or two, do not
they should be given the option to become inebriated and risk doing
attend. However if it is not appropriate something inappropriate.
for your child to be there, and if you
feel they will cause a commotion, leave
them with a babysitter.

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