Thread: Funeral Etiquette

I'm with you Discovery 39, No manners at all. I think standards have changed a lot over the last few years and not for the better, but do we blame the kids or the parents that were charged with bringing them up.
Dave.

There is a massive problem with this cultural use of mobile phones. To think that they would use them during a funeral is unthinkable.

To ask the question in such circumstance is to answer it...

Quite seriously, I told an older person to put his phone away at a funeral I attended 2 weeks ago - its not just the youth.

I would have been having a gentle word, or several, in their ears as well. Not on at all.

Originally Posted by discovery39

Are ALL basic human standards (ie: Respect for ones dead) completely gone???

Yes, not just the younger generation, I find a general lack of respect across all generations, and not just at funerals.

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Originally Posted by Slunnie

Quite seriously, I told an older person to put his phone away at a funeral I attended 2 weeks ago - its not just the youth.

Well you can see what sort of role model they would make for their kids.
Dave

The role modelling comes from a much wider range of sources than the parents. Just look at the images and sounds from television, radio, advertising, celebrity, elite sportspeople, films and so on that young people are bombarded with every day.
When did you last watch a television programme where two people in dispute did NOT sort it out with fists and guns? What sort of a role model is "Jonah from Tonga"? If you don't have the latest tech gizmo, then the advertisers tell you that you are deprived and old-fashioned. If young people are not on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, then they are ostracised by their peers.
And then there's the addictive quality of mobile phones- the instant feedback they provide means people feel deprived if they have to wait any length of time for a response.
The problem is far greater than their parents. Funnily enough, it's our generation (and the one before us) who are complaining about the poor value system of the young, yet we are the ones whose superannuation funds are making money from the companies that generate all this muck. Ironic, isn't it?

Coop