So you heard that Trevor your friend from around the corner has kicked the proverbial bucket and has gone to the land beyond the skies (hopefully). You found out the date of the funeral, wore your Sunday best and turned up early to say your goodbyes…only to be visually assaulted by sights that would make your grandmother blush and the pope faint!
From young men with their rumps on display because their waist and a proper belt apparently are in malice, to young ladies (and I use that word rather loosely) who expose more breast, leg and thighs than a bucket of KFC, with attire so sinfully skimpy they border on nude. Is this what funerals have become? Mini dancehall sessions now conducted inside the Lord’s house with no regards to tradition and protocol? When did funeral etiquette take a backseat to ghetto ‘fabulousism’ and rachetness? Is there even such a thing as proper funeral etiquette? BUZZZ MAGAZINE sought to spill the tea on real funeral protocol and what one should and should not do in the church, at the grave side and at the home.
The No-No’s
1. If you’re late for a funeral and it has already started, do NOT ask the minister to back the casket!? If you already forgot what the person looked like, just glance at the cover of the programme.
2. The seats at the front are for the immediate family of the deceased, do NOT plant yourself at the front of the church if you are not a relative.
3. At no time ever is it appropriate to want to take a ‘selfie’ with the dead body. Are you serious? Would you also want them to smile and say ‘cheese?”
4. Put your cell phones on vibrate or turn them off altogether. Nobody wants to hear your Alkaline ring tone in the middle of the Pastor’s sermon.
5. If the outfit you choose to wear cannot be worn to take a passport picture or in a court of law, chances are it is too revealing for a funeral, so no cleavage or crotch shots allowed near the pulpit.
To Read More: Purchase your copy of Volume 9 #3– July-August 2017
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So you heard that Trevor your friend from around the corner has kicked the proverbial bucket and has gone to the land beyond the skies (hopefully). You found out the date of the funeral, wore your Sunday best and turned up early to say your goodbyes…only to be visually assaulted by sights that would make your grandmother blush and the pope faint!
From young men with their rumps on display because their waist and a proper belt apparently are in malice, to young ladies (and I use that word rather loosely) who expose more breast, leg and thighs than a bucket of KFC, with attire so sinfully skimpy they border on nude. Is this what funerals have become? Mini dancehall sessions now conducted inside the Lord’s house with no regards to tradition and protocol? When did funeral etiquette take a backseat to ghetto ‘fabulousism’ and rachetness? Is there even such a thing as proper funeral etiquette? BUZZZ MAGAZINE sought to spill the tea on real funeral protocol and what one should and should not do in the church, at the grave side and at the home.
The No-No’s
1. If you’re late for a funeral and it has already started, do NOT ask the minister to back the casket!? If you already forgot what the person looked like, just glance at the cover of the programme.
2. The seats at the front are for the immediate family of the deceased, do NOT plant yourself at the front of the church if you are not a relative.
3. At no time ever is it appropriate to want to take a ‘selfie’ with the dead body. Are you serious? Would you also want them to smile and say ‘cheese?”
4. Put your cell phones on vibrate or turn them off altogether. Nobody wants to hear your Alkaline ring tone in the middle of the Pastor’s sermon.
5. If the outfit you choose to wear cannot be worn to take a passport picture or in a court of law, chances are it is too revealing for a funeral, so no cleavage or crotch shots allowed near the pulpit.
To Read More: Purchase your copy of Volume 9 #3– July-August 2017
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