I see dead people...

I went to a funeral today. It was catholic. I am not. I found the rituals very pagan. But the Catholics piously mumbling, were very comforted by the ceremony. By eating a white wafer they felt they were doing the "right thing"... or maybe it is the "rite thing". To me it appeared to be ritual cannibalism. But to a catholic, eating the "body of Christ" has nothing to do with eating a human body. So what do I know.

I saw the body in the casket and it was grey through the make up. The person that James once was, was long gone. I don't pretend to know where he went, but he wasn't in that box. In the funeral home everyone sat facing forward, staring at the body. It was as if they thought that he would jump up and say, "Just kidding!" Perhaps that is the reason for the wake.

Funeral rituals are for the living. It makes us feel better. In the end it doesn't change anything though. We all gotta go sometime.