While, thankfully, I do not attend funerals often, when I have in the past, being there has caused me to wonder what the people in attendance are really thinking. Do they really feel sad, or is that just the way they think they are expected to behave? Movies would have us believe that the spirit of our dearly-departed joins in the ceremony - moving in and out of the mourners, seeing and hearing without being seen or heard. I wonder about that, to...
