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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?

I've always sort of felt this way, but now I feel that a lot of states really aren't that interesting. Maybe if I didn't have a passport or I had an infinite amount of money or someone else paid for it, I would do it. It's still not off the table, but the older you get the more you start to realize how precious money and time is, and you stop focusing so much on "collecting places" and start focusing more on seeing the places that are truly worth seeing. I've already been to all the Western and Gulf states, as well as Georgia, New York, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and there are only a few other states in the U. S. that really interest me. I'd rather use my money to see more places abroad.

Europeans can answer this question for Europe, or I guess it can apply in a more broad sense too.

I never intended to visit every country on earth, but I wanted to at least visit every country in Europe and the Americas, as well as every US state and territory and every province and territory in Canada.

But now there are places in these regions that no longer really interest me or appeal to me. Maybe if I saw all my bucketlist places first