But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.