It’s being live-streaming so it’s family in Latin America can participate on it
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Napster153@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A funeral is a sacred thing.
WHY WOULD YOU STREAM IT AND MAKE IT ABOUT YOU?!
I would understand if it’s a self-reflection and comfort after the event, but not during.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 days ago
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Like the other commentator said, if you’re on the other side of the world, old, infirm etc it gets you to the funeral. A lot of people, religious and otherwise, take a degree of comfort seeing the final journey be made by their friend, loved one or family, that all humans eventually take.
Napster153@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I understand that, but the post above highlights that there needs to be discretion to such an invite.
Placing it in a public space increases the risks of bad actors coming into stream and ruining the event for everyone. People have done such things for less.
I would’ve forwarded the obituary through a private family group or messenger as opposes to a socmed.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I’ve watched a couple - never occurred to me that our mike could’ve been hot.
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Reminds me of when my Nana died. People who I have never seen before in my entire life all came out of the woodwork to gawk and take pictures of her corpse. I was beyond pissed off and my biggest regret is not slapping those camera out of their hands because I didn’t want to cause a scene at a funeral. I wanted to say to them, “who the fuck are you and how dare you disrespect my grandmother like that!? I was there for her my entire life, where the fuck where you?”
My mom told me it was a catholic thing to take pictures of the dead, but I don’t give a shit about their shitty religion, especially if it encourages people to do selfish shit like this. If I could have done it all over again I would have definitely spoken up, but alas this was 14 years ago and I’ll never see those people again…whoever the fuck they were…
Epp@lemmus.org 4 days ago
I don’t understand… Were you afraid the cameras would capture her soul?
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No, the problem is that their selfish asses made it about themselves. A funeral is not a place to gawk at and take pictures of a body while people are mourning, especially when you were never there for the person. If you can’t understand how that’s rude and disrespectful then I don’t know what to tell you.
NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Some people have friends all over the world that cant make the journey.
Recently had this for a family funeral, 40/50 people from South Africa asked if it could be live-streamed. The immediate family didnt like the idea, but i can appreciate why they asked.