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03/04/2010 9:55 PM
pinkberry wrote:Rosie Rathbone wrote:Anyone. The funeral can be family only, but I've always been under the impression wakes were open. A guy I went to high school with died a few years ago and it felt like the entire state was at his wake, there was a line wrapped around a couple blocks with people wanting to pay their respects.Thank you. A teenage brother and sister (who I knew, but wasn't close with) died in my town the other day and their wake was last night. My sister went to school with the girl and wasn't really good friends with her, but they had talked. She and I went to the wake last night and today I had someone trying to make us feel guilty for going...like it wasn't our place to be there even though basically the entire town was there and the line was incredibly long. They were saying it "wasn't right" and basically that people who weren't close to the kids who died only went to "look cool and be part of the spectacle" I don't understand that way of thinking at all. We didn't attend the funeral today. The high school had buses transporting the kids from the school to the funeral then back. I'm sure a few kids maybe used that as a way to get out of school (I had a few friends do that when I was in high school and a classmate died), but for the candlelight vigil and wake that were held for these siblings all the kids went in the evenings for them and didn't miss any school at all. They also didn't go to "hangout" with each other, they just went to pay their respects and support each other.
Rosie Rathbone wrote:Anyone. The funeral can be family only, but I've always been under the impression wakes were open. A guy I went to high school with died a few years ago and it felt like the entire state was at his wake, there was a line wrapped around a couple blocks with people wanting to pay their respects.
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