The theology of death has to be separated from the politics of death.
Ministers are experts on death. They have to face it constantly. Not only ministering to the dying and the family, but creating the funeral summation of the act.
Most of the funerals I have been to lately have been pretty flat affairs. The passion does not come from the clergy, but the eulogy. It seems the family has to make their grief meaningful. Is that what a funeral is all about? Those left behind, not the departed. The memory, and the reassurance that it is a good thing for the soul in the end.
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