Are you saying they don't? What do you think a funeral is? It's a celebration of the person's death.

Not a happy celebration, though. Usually crying and dreading the loss of the loved one instead of throwing a party.

It depends on how you look at it. It's possible to look at a funeral of tears, sobs, and meloncholy and call it a celebration of happiness. It's just the kind of happiness where people don't scream obnoxiously and jump up and down like idiots.

Varies on people. I remember when my uncle died. The amount of tears in the service and burial was tremendous. But after that we all went to my aunts, had a large tent up and had a kind of party which was very pleasant. I always had the strange idea that we should have our funerals before we die. So the ‘to be dead’ person can walk around and see it. Imagine that! (No, I am not utterly serious.) I do actually plan to video myself with a message to people before I die.

Every single funeral I have been to, they where didn't want them to die. They where sad for the death, but there where also some who where happy for them(they didn't show too much emotion) When I was a Catholic, death didn't make me sad. Now, I just learnt to deal with it. Either way, death should be celebrated if you are an atheist OR a theist. Death is eternal sleep from the hardships we endure each day.

Death shouldn't be feared, but rather praised. We will all meet death, and when it comes, you may want to leave a happy impression to those who are waiting in line. Death should be a positive thing, not negative.

Edit: "they where didn't want them to die"

to

"they didn't want the victim to die."

Christians like to waste landmass for these huge cemeteries. Bad for the environment. I think people should just be burned and put into a chalice.

Think about it. If a guy's buried, odds are you're not gonna be able to dig him up and go to the cemetery everyday. But if you have ashes in a chalice, you can go up to it everyday and remember the deceased individual.

It depends on how you look at it. It's possible to look at a funeral of tears, sobs, and meloncholy and call it a celebration of happiness. It's just the kind of happiness where people don't scream obnoxiously and jump up and down like idiots.

Nooo, they really are miserable. Not so because they know that Jimmy and Todd are shitting apples in heaven. No, they're going pee pee in their pants because Mommy and Daddy can't tuck them in at night or because because they're REALLY miss Grandma. It's all about them.

Why don't you join that family in Kansas and protest at funerals? I'm sure you'd love that.

Most people don't understand death can be as beautiful as life. Thats why most people (including the religiously devoute) fear death.

And its a celebration of life, not death.

I understand funerals to be for the benefit of the friends and family of the deceased. As Richard Dawkins has said, humans have a spiritual side, which needs to be satisfied with need to mark important events with gatherings such as birthdays, weddings and funerals. It is a way for people to find closure, to bring a definate end to a life, so that they can begin to move past their loss

Christians can delight in the fact that they will see their loved ones again. But the parting is still naturally bitter. When those close to us die, it is easy for the Christian part of us to 'switch off', and to think in terms of never seeing somebody again. It is natural behaviour. In times of great stress, faith and understanding are tested.

Deaths are sad. It is a foolish thing to suggest that anyone should celebrate death itself.

Death is never spoken of as a friend but as an enemy of man. Why? Because it was not Gods original purpose for man to grow old, get sick and die. It was only because of Adams sin that death even exists. (1Cor 15:26) That is why Christs sacrifice will undo what Adam brought upon his pogeny. (Rom 6:23; 5:12)

Peace

TE is quoting Dawkins?

~Falls down~

troll, seriously.

Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the survivors. The deceased isn't interested in what kind of lining their coffin has, they aren't concerned about what kind flowers to have, they don't worry about whether their hair is perfect. All of that is for the family to be able to say good-bye in a respectable manner.

savu... First off, no to creationism. Second what you are saying is immortality. Immortality is considered the evil, because life is the experience.

Well, I've read some of his book. More than I expect you have done.