Funeral etiquette

[Mac]

@ironmoth

E.g. “I’m very sorry for your loss - my name is Iron Moth, I played in a band with Lemmy 30 years ago. He was one of the best”. Otherwise, what ends up happening is “who’s yer man?”, etc.

What do you do if there’s a line of 10-12 relatives and you only know 1? Sure you’ll hold up half the funeral telling them all who you are.

[Bandage]

@Mac

What do you do if there’s a line of 10-12 relatives and you only know 1? Sure you’ll hold up half the funeral telling them all who you are.

I hand out business cards to the bereaved folks I don’t know as I brush past them. Keeps things moving and they won’t be left wondering who I am.

[Mac]

@Bandage

I hand out business cards to the bereaved folks I don’t know as I brush past them. Keeps things moving and they won’t be left wondering who I am.

Do mid flying businessmen still use business cards?

[Smark]

Are you going to say this to all 25-30 of the extended family or how does it work?

[TreatyStones]

@Mac

What do you do if there’s a line of 10-12 relatives and you only know 1? Sure you’ll hold up half the funeral telling them all who you are.

Exactly. If they really want to know who are they will ask the person that you obviously knew.

[TreatyStones]

@glasagusban

You’re an idiot and you’ve obviously never been on the other end of that handshake. I’d expect that type of behaviour from a thick ignorant arsehole like @smark but would have expected a self professed country man would know better. The bereaved family have enough to be dealing with without having some thick ignorant muldoon without the good grace to give them the respect of 5 seconds to introduce himself and his relationship to the deceased or the family shouldering past auld ones to get to the one person he knows who is now also mortified that he has drawn this ignoramus upon his poor family.

So there’s 15 relatives sitting in a row and you take your time to introduce yourself to them all?

[ironmoth]

No - just whoever looks like the nosiest relative

Play it by ear at the funeral. Unless you’re on the autism spectrum and need rules around everything you do, be prepared to change to the funeral environment.

[myboyblue]

@TreatyStones

@glasagusban

You’re an idiot and you’ve obviously never been on the other end of that handshake. I’d expect that type of behaviour from a thick ignorant arsehole like @smark but would have expected a self professed country man would know better. The bereaved family have enough to be dealing with without having some thick ignorant muldoon without the good grace to give them the respect of 5 seconds to introduce himself and his relationship to the deceased or the family shouldering past auld ones to get to the one person he knows who is now also mortified that he has drawn this ignoramus upon his poor family.

So there’s 15 relatives sitting in a row and you take your time to introduce yourself to them all?

Can you imagine? Everyone would be wondering who the self important prick who insisted on introducing himself to the entire fucking church was.

[glasagusban]

When is there ever 15 in a row? There isn’t. This is the funeral etiquette thread, you’re making a show of yourself.

[TreatyStones]

@ironmoth

No - just whoever looks like the nosiest relative

Play it by ear at the funeral. Unless you’re on the autism spectrum and need rules around everything you do, be prepared to change to the funeral environment.

Or you take your time to have a few words with the person that you actually know and who you came to meet. It’s different if you are in a scenario where you know noone at the funeral.

[TreatyStones]

@glasagusban

When is there ever 15 in a row? There isn’t. This is the funeral etiquette thread, you’re making a show of yourself.

What are you on about? Or course there is? I’ve never been at a funeral where there was less than 10 people to sympathise with.

[glasagusban]

You sympathise properly with the immediate family. Simple really. If you’d rather grunt something as you shove your way down the line as fast as you can you’d better off just fucking off out of it altogether.

[ironmoth]

I was actually thinking of a funeral where you know very few of the relatives. But if you were stuck in a line and standing by a relation of the deceased that you didn’t know, there’d be little wrong with introducing yourself as part of your sypathising. Gauge it on an individual basis.

[TreatyStones]

@glasagusban

You sympathise properly with the immediate family. Simple really. If you’d rather grunt something as you shove your way down the line as fast as you can you’d better off just fucking off out of it altogether.

Often with these funerals you don’t actually know the dead person directly but are there to support a friend, son, daughter, sister etc of the deceased. You sympathise sincerely with the people you know among the mourners but there is no need to acting all self important and introducing yourself to people you’ve never met in your life. If it’s the case where you knew the dead person directly then it’s a different matter.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Straight outside then to use antiseptic hand spray or you will have a cold in a week

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

What is the score so far?

@TreatyStones

@ciarancareyshurlingarmy

Having been through a number of family funerals in recent years I disagree. When you are in that line, you want to know who the person shaking your hand is.

We’ll just wait and see which post gets more likes. That is the only true judge.

[glasagusban]

Hi, I’m @TreatyStones, I’m a friend of (X person that you know), I’m sorry for your loss. 5 seconds. More than likely the next person in line will overhear, you don’t have to repeat yourself to 10 people, it’s fairly simple really.

Do you think you can manage that while shaking their hand and looking them in the eye and without without stumbling over your own tongue and shouldering the grandmother?

[TreatyStones]

@ciarancareyshurlingarmy

What is the score so far?

8-7. I’m up by 1.

[HBV]

If you deem it appropriate to attend a funeral in all likelihood you will know who the chief mourners are and I’d always introduce myself to then and my connection to the deceased.
It’s not appropriate to maintain this routine down the line and its absolutely ok to skip a few lesser mourners if there us a backlog.
Don’t be rigid going in. Be prepared to have to think on your feet. And remember those at the end of the line don’t want your handshake let alone your self important spiel.

[TreatyStones]

@ciarancareyshurlingarmy

What is the score so far?

That’s a 10-7 win for me.
The lack of an insult in your post cost you big time.