Do funeral processions in your area drive the hearse by the deceased house in between the church & the cemetery? Everyone or just 1st responders?

[DrPepper12]

Full disclosure: I am an alien and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND MANY FUNERARY RITES OF HUMANS.

In the NYC tri-state area, (maybe the Northeast USA in general - I don't know) they take the dead body & (whole train of cars) procession for a ride past their old house and in the case of cops/fireman, usually past their firehouse or precinct. ITS FUCKING BIZZARO WORLD!!

Usually after the burial a lot of the entourage goes to the diner for brunch/lunch which is the one thing I support that both Christians & Jews here do. Then maybe the closest friends and family back to decedents house to (for Christians) get drunk and tell stories about the poor sap.

Like I said, I don't get you humans a lot of the time but I think the Jews are closest to the best way to mourn (with a BIG exception to the Vikings send off to Valhalla - THOSE GUYS KNOW HOW TO PARTY!)

The Jews "sitting shiva" makes sense to me. Simple pine box. Buried as soon as practical. No rabbi needed - head of family does "service". Set mourning period. Go to decedants house instead of sanitary clinical depressing funeral home where some preacher who never met the guy does a eulogy. EVERY visitor brings / orders food so you don't cook for days or weeks. Sit on uncomfortable box to remind yourself your not supposed to be comfy & cover mirrors so you're not concerned with vanity - all so you can truly focus on the decedant. All old photo albums throughout the home broken out for guests to look at. Everybody kvells, noshes & yentas in their shmatas.

So? What's it like by you? Does any other faiths funerary rites appeal to you? If It were up to me every cemetery would be turned into a park, preserve, trail, ball field or playground.

I've given some thought to Parsi (Zoroastrian) rites (another faith I admire very much) & the Tower of Silence for myself but will likely be made into a tree, plant or a diamond.

Is the Northeast just fucking insane with the drive by corpse?

NGL bruh, that's FUCKED UP! WTF? 😳

Yes my area does this too but only certain groups of people.

Yes my area does this for all / most decedants.

Yes my area does this for some people - usually 1st responders

Nope! Funeral home ➡️ Grave ➡️ Dead guys house ➡️ Optional: Hit the bar to become a puddle

[nolabels]

Driving past the home of the deceased used to be a standard custom in my area (St. Louis, MO) that seems to have died out some time around the mid to late 1980s.

I remember that being a very emotional segment of the funeral procession.

I'm not sure why it was phased out, or if it still might be available at additional cost.
As the population has greatly increased, so has the death rate increased.
The National cemeteries are busy beyond belief every day.
My guess is that it was phased out as a time and cost savings measure.

[DrPepper12]

Sounds right. It's just so WEIRD to me.

[exitseven]

They will do it if you ask them to. My wife ha an uncle who lived to be 100. He ad a small business and a very nice house on a hilltop. The hearse went by the business and his house before we got to the cemetery.

[DrPepper12]

Wow! 💯!! He deserves the deluxe treatment!!

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[SaoirseS]

Funeral processions in the Midwest almost always proceed directly from the site of the service (funeral home, church, etc.) to the burial or inurnment site. Routes are planned so that most all turns are right turns, and along a route that is least disruptive to local traffic.

[DrPepper12]

I never noticed that!!! Yes!! It's all right turns!!! Mind. Blown.

[Likes2drive]

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