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