What are you afraid of? If you have a realistic concern about getting drama and crap of some sort from his relatives and friends, then it's probably best that you do not attend. The reality is that he won't care if you're there or not. And even if you choose to believe that he still exists in some form somewhere, you can also choose to believe that he'll know what's in your heart and why you aren't there.
There's very often a huge amount of hypocrisy involved in funerals, with people showing up who didn't really give a shit about the dead person while they were alive or actually disliked or even hated them. If you don't attend his funeral and everyone in his life knew you were an item, your absence will probably be noticed and people will draw their own conclusions from you not being there. Some of those conclusions will probably be completely wrong; some might be correct. What you need to ask yourself is how important it is to you that those people see you at the funeral. If you don't really give a damn about their opinions while the people whose opinions do matter to you know how his death has affected you, then don't go.
There's no standard way to grieve the death of someone we care about. You shouldn't pay any attention to anyone who says that you're not dealing with his death in the "correct" way; it's all just social conventions. You will deal with his death the best you can, and as long as you don't get stuck at some point to such a degree that you can't move on with your life, you'll be doing fine.
My grandpa recently died, I was expected to go to the funeral. I've seen him maybe 4 times my entire life and never liked these to begin with. Surprisingly no one has given me dhit for not wasting 2 days pto to attend a funeral I have no fucks to give about
It sounds like - apart from your late grandfather - you might have a basically reasonable family.
As I said in my earlier, it's often the case that funerals are a huge exercise in hypocrisy. There's often performative grieving by people who are indifferent about the death or even secretly relieved that the bastard in the box has finally fucked off out of their lives. Families can be very weird, manipulative and demanding when it comes to younger members "paying their respects" to an elder member who has died even if there was no mutual respect - or even interest - when the old git was alive.
Yea funerals are weird in its entirety. I can promise you not many are missing the basterd. He'd the type of guy to get a black dog name it nigger then beat it. So not exactly a big loss to most people.
They tried to get me to go with my brother but like no. Funerals are weird. I hope I don't have one when I die. I dont want a bunch of people wasting their time over my meat sack.
My boyfriend just died and I am not going to the funeral
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What are you afraid of? If you have a realistic concern about getting drama and crap of some sort from his relatives and friends, then it's probably best that you do not attend. The reality is that he won't care if you're there or not. And even if you choose to believe that he still exists in some form somewhere, you can also choose to believe that he'll know what's in your heart and why you aren't there.
There's very often a huge amount of hypocrisy involved in funerals, with people showing up who didn't really give a shit about the dead person while they were alive or actually disliked or even hated them. If you don't attend his funeral and everyone in his life knew you were an item, your absence will probably be noticed and people will draw their own conclusions from you not being there. Some of those conclusions will probably be completely wrong; some might be correct. What you need to ask yourself is how important it is to you that those people see you at the funeral. If you don't really give a damn about their opinions while the people whose opinions do matter to you know how his death has affected you, then don't go.
There's no standard way to grieve the death of someone we care about. You shouldn't pay any attention to anyone who says that you're not dealing with his death in the "correct" way; it's all just social conventions. You will deal with his death the best you can, and as long as you don't get stuck at some point to such a degree that you can't move on with your life, you'll be doing fine.
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My grandpa recently died, I was expected to go to the funeral. I've seen him maybe 4 times my entire life and never liked these to begin with. Surprisingly no one has given me dhit for not wasting 2 days pto to attend a funeral I have no fucks to give about
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It sounds like - apart from your late grandfather - you might have a basically reasonable family.
As I said in my earlier, it's often the case that funerals are a huge exercise in hypocrisy. There's often performative grieving by people who are indifferent about the death or even secretly relieved that the bastard in the box has finally fucked off out of their lives. Families can be very weird, manipulative and demanding when it comes to younger members "paying their respects" to an elder member who has died even if there was no mutual respect - or even interest - when the old git was alive.
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Yea funerals are weird in its entirety. I can promise you not many are missing the basterd. He'd the type of guy to get a black dog name it nigger then beat it. So not exactly a big loss to most people.
They tried to get me to go with my brother but like no. Funerals are weird. I hope I don't have one when I die. I dont want a bunch of people wasting their time over my meat sack.