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Originally posted by ladygreek
Those were Wakes where the idea was to give the person time to "wake up." That is because there were misdiagnoses of death and people feared burying someone alive.
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Ladygreek, do you know
erythang? You really taught me something new about wakes. Thank you.
But I got a headache when I saw a black man in those pictures. It was as if my brain refused to process that information. FinerWoman, I hear what you were saying because I know I don't want a bunch of sad songs at my services ("Don't Cry For Me"will
not be allowed), but the recliner with the remote was too much for me.
My granddad's wake was nice because it was just the way he would have wanted it: full of people that loved him having a good time talking. You would have thought there was a family reunion going on.