"D.Currie" > wrote in message
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> "MareCat" > wrote in message
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>> I've only ever been to two funerals -- one for a coworker who died of a
>> heart attack at the age of 35, and one for a friend who died of stomach
>> cancer at the age of 46. Everyone else who's ever been close to me is
>> still living.
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> That's amazing. My parents brought me to wakes and funerals when I was a
> little kid. Partly because they couldn't afford a sitter, partly because
> it wasn't all that unusual in our family for kids to attend, and I suppose
> it also was their attempt to explain death. But I went to a whole lot of
> wakes and funerals for aunts, uncles, friends of my parents, cousins. One
> grandparent (the only one still alive while I was) and I drove 900 miles
> for that one.

My extended family all lived far away from us while I was growing up, so
either just my mom or my dad attended the funerals of my grandparents. I've
lost one aunt and one uncle in recent years, but I wasn't close to either of
them, and so didn't make the trips across country to attend those funerals.
And as amazing as it sounds, I don't remember my parents losing any of their
friends while I was growing up.

Mary