{"id":15239,"date":"2011-04-25T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2011-04-25T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T14:54:20","slug":"mormon-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/mormon-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15240\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"President Hinckley's Funeral\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0a-PresHinckleyFuneral.jpg\" alt=\"President Hinckley's Funeral\" width=\"290\" height=\"220\" \/>How different are Mormon funerals than those done by other religions? For some strange reason I actually enjoy funerals (at least Mormon ones), despite the sadness of losing a loved one. We&#8217;ve had a couple of memorial services in our ward in the past few months, and while sitting through the most recent I wondered how our funerals are different from those of other religions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I don&#8217;t know if I can quite explain why I enjoy funerals. Somehow I come away from funerals renewed and with a greater interest in and love and respect for the deceased. I enjoy the praise and love shown and the enlightening or funny stories told about them.<\/p>\n<p>The few funerals of other religions I&#8217;ve attended have also been enjoyable, but not quite the same. They seem to have more of a feeling of despair, although that could well be me reading something into them. I don&#8217;t know. I certainly can&#8217;t claim to have attended enough funerals to say that I know what the difference is.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a vague memory of some general conference talk or something that claimed that there was a difference between our funerals and those of others, based on our better understanding of our purpose and destiny. But I&#8217;m not sure what that claim was based on, or even where exactly I heard it.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me throw the question out to you: Is there a difference between Mormon funerals and those of other religions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How different are Mormon funerals than those done by other religions? For some strange reason I actually enjoy funerals (at least Mormon ones), despite the sadness of losing a loved one. We&#8217;ve had a couple of memorial services in our ward in the past few months, and while sitting through the most recent I wondered how our funerals are different from those of other religions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":15240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mormon-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0a-PresHinckleyFuneral.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15243,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions\/15243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}