Mormon funerals - how they usually go down

Yesterday my wife and I attended a viewing for one of my uncles. I was trying to explain Mormon funerals to my wife. Here for example is how they usually go down:

http://marklynnhigbee.blogspot.com

...with it being a session where people get up and bemoan the fact that the only way to see the person who's died is to become a good Mormon - even if the person who died wasn't a particularly faithful or adherent Mormon themselves. Mormon funerals are often morbid demeaning sales pitches that can have little relevance to the life of the deceased person.


At my own mother's funeral I did manage to shed a bit of light though:

The talk I gave at my mother's funeral - February 2010:
     http://jonathanshome.blogspot.com/2010/12/funeral-talk-that-i-gave-in-february.html

Related posts found by others:

http://mormoncurtain.com/topic_funerals.html

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,699868,699891

"...Even as a TBM, I felt like they were a sales pitch, designed to peddle a religion to those in mourning and to take advantage of their grief..."

http://kaylanamars.blogspot.com/2012/02/ultra-sad-disease-that-is-mormon.html

"...Mormon funerals are only for proselytizing. They are using one of the most vulnerable times like a death in the family to promote their church..."

So, while my wife and I were happy to attend a viewing, and to see again a cousin who I played with as a kid & his family, we won't be attending the funeral because I can in about 10 seconds play in my mind exactly what is going to be said & happen at my uncles funeral. It will be a demoralizing and belittling sales pitch - demoralizing to those who aren't Mormon and who have no intention of becoming Mormon again.

So anyway, today, Saturday, we'll be doing more useful & fun things... And, at least some of my uncles children and grandchildren are clearly not true believing Mormons. That's a good legacy we can all be proud of... Same goes for my own mother, especially with regard to many of her grandchildren. Leaving Mormonism is like growing up psychologically.