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 an Irish woman in her fifties living in a rural setting -I can’t even begin to count.

I'm in my 70s, and to be honest, funerals are where I do much of my socialising. In the winter months I can pretty much guarantee at least one a month. I've already been to one this year and have another tomorrow that unfortunately I can't make. I missed out on a catch up with a friend this afternoon because she was going to a funeral. It's what we do at our age!

53 years old and I’ve been to 4 - 2 funerals of distant relatives I’d never met as a child, FIL 20 years ago, and my uncle’s funeral a few years ago.

Most of my friends are older than me, and my very elderly parents are in poor health, so I fear I’m on the brink of entering a phase in life when there will be lots of funerals.

In my working life I go to lots of burials as I look after 2 council burial grounds.

9 funerals, I'm 50.
Only one of those was a burial, all the rest were cremations.

Again Irish, well over a hundred.

Family
Neighbours
Friends
Colleagues
Ex colleagues

Then parents/siblings or children of the above.

Would have know all the people directly but it would be the norm to go for the bereaved.

I was born Catholic but I'm not religious.

Have only read half the thread and I'm shocked at how few funerals, posters of my age have been to. 57 here and lost count years ago. Far far too many 😪

By early thirties I’d been to around 10. The last one I went to was about 10 years ago. It was awful because of the situation. Since then I have decided to avoid unless I am close to that person. Large family so I know there will come a time when there is multiple to attend unfortunately.

Mid 50s - 11, 2 more in the next fortnight

9 I think. All 4 grandparents, a great grandparent, a great aunt, an aunt, a colleague, a cousin. I’m 40.

I'm 52 and have quickly totted up 19 in my head without too much effort and there's likely a good few more I've forgotten.
Includes parents and grandparents, a sister, aunt and uncle and 2 close friends. Others were DH side (aunt and uncles we were close to) and some for friends eg my best friend's uncle who I knew very well, another friend's dad.

I'm Irish descent through both parents, so going to funerals is the done thing and normal to me. Was a bit of a shock for DH as he'd never set foot in a church until he met me (he was 31!). Since then it's been a round of christenings confirmations weddings funerals...

10 - I'm 55.
4 grandparents, my parents, my stepdad, ex-H's mum and nan, my uncle.
I'm incredibly fortunate to have not have lost any friends, or younger relatives. I get really jealous of anyone my age who still has one or both parents around though, I miss them so much.

I’m in my early 50s and I reckon 9 funerals, 7 of those people were really old.

I am definitely a funeral avoider though, could have attended several more.

No idea, too many to remember, it’s probably easier listing the ones I missed:
2 grandparents
2 aunties
1 cousin - all while I was over seas.
1 uncle I couldn’t cope with as it was too close to another uncles death who I was still grieving for, I was 16.
2 further uncles and 2 cousins because I choose to avoid due to other family issues.

Im attending one next week of yet another uncle, it’s my third family funeral in 18 months.

i come from a large Irish family, I’ve been attending funerals from a child, family, friends including class mates when I was still a child, priests, teachers, family friends and so on for 50 years.

I'm in my early 60s.

I've attended services for two local acquaintances who died young - one at 47 and one at 55. But not the actual funerals.

Then grandmothers x 2, parents x 2, aunts x 2, uncles x 2 (but I wasn't invited to/didn't attend all the funerals of all of my aunts and uncles), dh's grandmother. I make that 11.

Only one I'm 41

I'm 35 and I've been to 20+

Four grandparents, my dad, my OH, two uncles, an aunt, my MIL and BIL, 4 close friends, a step dad, and some friends parents/siblings.

I feel like I'm very unlucky compared to the average person.

I'm 55 and I have no idea how many other than too many (quite a few were far too young).

I’m 49 now but between May 1st 1996 and May 1st 2001, my husband and I lost my Grandad and 2 Grandmas, his Grandad and 2 Grandmas( other 2 grandparents died when we were tiny) my mum, my dad, his step-dad so that’s 9 in 5 years. We have also lost since 2010, his Uncle, 2 of my Uncle’s, 1 Aunt and my best friends husband this is another 5. Didn’t attend every funeral but his think 14 is alot

I’m coming up 54 and have been to 2.

I tend to avoid like the plague, as I find them odd as a thing to attend. I only go if I really can’t get out of it.

I'm 52, and I've attended more than I can count. I went to 4 last year, and I think 2 the year before that.

I'm 51 and I think it's seven. (Hope I haven't forgotten any!)

My grandma, DH's uncle, my aunt, DH's dad, three friends.

X11. I'm 40.

4 Grandparents, a family friend, my husband’s uncle and my beloved Dad.
So 7.

7 - I'll be attending another soon.

At one stage my parents had a sort of hobby of attending funerals. It started when the local priest asked some parishioners to attend when it was someone with no relatives or friends who could attend.

The idea being that no one should be buried alone.

Then they started to go to more of them.

It stopped when the priest left and they fell out with the new one.

Also surprised at the low numbers, I am 26, and I would gage about seven funerals. My dad when I was 14 (my first ever funeral), two grandparents, a few relatives of my mum's as she needed moral support and one friend.