Politicians Descend On Senator Kennedy's Funeral

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[Jay Lewis]

It is important that those close--immediately close--to a person that has given up the ghost have an opportunity to engage in a baggage-releasing grief process, so that life can go on as the great spirit intended.

It is also important that all those people--immediate and distant--also participate in an appropriate and congruent time to process real grief as well.

It is equally as important that everybody is not held hostage, cloyed into a loop of endless sentimentalities because a few, working from a personal shaky scaffold, demand that the process is for them too precious to be relinquished.

Think of clinging as interruption of process.

This is perhaps the phenomenon of the Irish wake.

A misconstruing of the wake process depicts getting drunk as the grief process--releasing inhibitions during the service process, but this is really not the process. Without grieving, getting drunk arrests and prohibits letting go. Getting drunk AFTER shared ritualistic grieving is the proper process, a general sweeping up, and the getting drunk--the releasing of inhibition­s--address­es many of the odds and bits of individual inhibition, heretofore referred to as baggage.

I think of how Ted would have laughed at the cartoons, where others are too encumbered with those personal things that would prohibit themselves from doing so.

Ted, we loved you. We grieve your loss, but, after embracing our sadness and pain at your passing, will let you proceed, as we must.

Fare well, Ted.

Farewell.

[LMPE]

Now's the chance to push through health care!

[Octoberluna]

I would be insulted if people didn't laugh at my funeral - life is hard enough to not laugh at it - if after a long and fulfilling life my firends can't have a good laugh over my coffin then the whole thing would have been a waste. Never too soon to laugh at a funeral.

[John Ennis]

not really offensive, just not funny.

[Bksmith2]

He would want us to laugh, so i will.

Life's way too important to take seriously, death is less important

[LiberalForever]

No thanks

[pdxsean]

Agreed. Too soon.

[jayburd]

Yeah. Not feelin' the humor...

[pammiethekid]

I know this is supposed to be funny, but it doesn't work for me. Maybe I've been to too many funerals lately, but I read some of these people as honestly sad in the same way that I am when a friend dies.