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Imagine being at your brother’s funeral and using the opportunity to prank a little kid. What a legend
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why are open casket funerals even a thing?
Why do we hide from death so much?
a closed casket funeral isn't hiding from death... it's respecting the final rest of a loved one instead of pumping them full of formaldehyde, doing shittons of makeup, and pinning their jaw shut so they don't look like a corpse. the final face one makes in death is a grotesque one, i've seen it firsthand. a funeral is a peaceful send-off, not a peep show.
It isn't an either/or proposition. There's multiple ways to both have a viewing and keep a body from getting deep into decomposition, and there's really no issues with the face automatically becoming grotesque. It really isn't an every time thing. It isn't even a majority of the time, when the body is kept cool enough. Pinning isn't the only option for keeping a mouth closed either.
People have done in home wakes way longer than the funerary industry has existed. There's plenty of options available.