Funeral Personalization can get out of hand. At the National Funeral Directors Association(NFDA) Convention last month personalization was front and center. But when does funeral personalization go too far?
The New York Times did an excellent job reporting on this. Snippet:
AT a funeral directors’ convention recently, I wandered around an exhibition floor crowded with the usual accouterments of the trade — coffins, catafalques, cemetery tents, cremation furnaces and the like. Scattered among these traditional goods were also many new baubles and gewgaws of the funeral business — coffins emblazoned with sports logos; cremation urns in the shape of bowling pins, golf bags and motorcycle gas tanks; “virtual cemeteries” with video clips and eerie recorded messages from the dead; pendants, bracelets, lamps and table sculptures into which ashes of the deceased can be swirled and molded.-via www.nytimes.com
Personalization goes into disrespect, when there is too much exultation (as in the media case of Michael Jackson) or flippancy, or as sometimes happens when the death itself becomes too much of a fixation, harming the family.
Personalization becomes sad when funeral symbols are eliminated and proper grief is avoided.
Funeral personalization is subjective, and can only be evaluated based upon subjective criteria.
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