How many funerals have you attended?

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I've just attended my second one and I'm 49.
How many have you attended and how old are you?

I'm 66 and I have no idea how many, but there have been a lot. I certainly can't remember how many though.

By your age OP I had attended several, I would say it's pretty unusual to attend only your second at age 49.

3 grandparents
1 grandparent in law
2 uncles

I’m 36

Grandma (I was 16). My Granny died when I was about 7 and I didn't attend, my 2 grandads when I was 21/22 and I don't remember going to either (which makes no sense to me).
Uncle-in-law.
Husband (44)
MIL (46)
Uncle (47)
Friend's mum [edit to add this one]
(Number in brackets being my age at the time).

So 6, that I can definitely say I went to. I'm now mid-50s.

I'm 60, and have been to about 5.

Grandfathers both dead before I was born. Unfortunately I didn't go to my grandmothers'. I have no aunts/uncles, no cousins.

A couple of work colleagues died but I couldn't go. No close friends have died.

I've been to my dad's, my FIL's, my great-uncle's, my husband's grandmothers'. That's it, I think.

At least fourteen. Both parents, three grandparents, best friend, various aunts and uncles, colleagues. All sad, some heartbreaking.

Sorry, meant to add, am 64.

Three. I am sixty.

Wayyyyy too many

Im in NI and funerals are huge and if you cant make the funeral , you attend the wake before hand, to pay respect.

Even during Covid when no one was allowed to attend, you stood outside the house as the funeral party left

Over 50. I am 44 but Irish with a huge family.

4 personal funerals, 2 for friends of my in-laws…. but I worked as a District Nurse for several years and would often get asked to attend funerals for the palliative patients I”we cared for, I think possibly 12 related to work.

Astonished by these low numbers. I've probably been to at least 30 in my 50 years. If someone I know reasonably well dies and the funeral is a day when I'm not at work, I would likely to go unless it was long way away. Elderly neighbours and relatives, old friends of my parents, parents of my old friends. I think it's a sign of respect to the dead, and to those left behind.

6 at the age of 49.

One of my kids had been to 4 by the age of 21, sadly including a teenage friend lost to suicide.

I’m 52 and been to around 15 I think

Actually it's 7 for me, aged 49.

I’m 54 and a I’ve been to 18, although that could be more I’m sure I’ve forgotten a couple.

I'm 52 and I've been to loads.

DB's best mate when they were 17 was the first one (brain tumour 😭)

Since then:
Two grandparents (never knew the other two)
Great aunts
Aunts and uncles
Parent of an old friend
Four of my own friends well before their time in the past 4 years.

My parents are always at funerals but they're 86 and 79. I feel like I've been to plenty for the age I am, and I'd like a good long break from them.

3 grandparents
2 brothers
both parents
4 friends
1 uncle
2 aunties
= 15. I'm 66

Loads, I’m 42.

A parent, 3 grandparents, an auntie, dh’s grandparents and auntie.

But then also lots of family friends, and if my friends have a bereavement I will attend if I can to support them, I’ve been to a handful of those ones when I haven’t really known the person who has died but I go to support the relative and people did that for me too when my dad died which I appreciated.

I'm Irish and wouldn't think I was a great funeral-goer, but still at least a dozen a year, maybe more - that is including the funeral home visit and commiserations as 'a funeral'.

I'm in my early 40's and have been to about 17 or so (albeit 4 were virtual courtesy of covid, including one of my Grandparents)

15. Both of my grandmothers, both of my parents, Two cousins, three close friends and wider family relatives

I am 56

1 sadly.
I couldn't go to my dad's as I was in the last week of pregnancy and was a long haul flight away.
I couldn't go to my FIL's because COVID and travel.

About 12. I'm 44.

Probably at least two dozen - lots of older relatives, and lately the parents of my friends and a few old schoolmates.

If you move away from your home town, a lot of people could well be far away. Old friends of my parents, or parents of my old friends - I'd go to funerals if they were nearby, or if I were still in contact with the deceased, but if it was 400 miles away and for someone I haven't seen in 30 years, then no.