These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.