Can You Blame Them???

[Twisterdog]

[QUOTE=lady_zana]Most parents wouldn't want their children exposed to death so often. As for the school, it would be hard for the buses/parents to drop off and pick up the kids from school on days that the funeral home was operating with a funeral-car-route.[QUOTE]

Well, it was a hypothetical question, I wasn't really thinking to the detail level of parking and car routes.

I was just trying to make the point that ANY business could say, "not in my backyard" to a funeral home on SOME grounds. And I find that sad.

Death is such a taboo in our culture here. I think we do a great disservice to our children by making death and dying a secret, dirty, not-seen-or-talked-about event. EVERYONE is going to attend a funeral and lose a loved one, most of us well before got out of high school. Death is a part of life. It is going to happen to us all. Better to teach our children that death can be a beautiful celebration of a life well lived and a person loved than that death, funerals and the deceased are such horrible things that they need to be located away from and out of sight of everyone.

[Karen]

Our property backs up to a cemetery. As Aunt Bertha said - at least the neighbors are quiet!

I do not think a funeral home across from a nursing home warrants protest. Some people will protest anything. My friend Mary Green told me when she was just 90 - she lived many years afterwards "If the good Lord calls me, I'm going!" and I find that attitude common among elderly people. It is not like any need to be reminded, or that they forget, that death is nearing ... unless they suffer from mental illness, like Alzheimers, that make them forget nearly everything.

I would, however, approve highly of nursing homes being built across from elemetary schools. With the way families are so spread apart these days, many children never even see their grandparents. Being familiar with the elderly is a good thing, and children and elders have much to offer each other. Imagine the joy the elders would have seeing the children running and at play - would that not be a good thing?