How many funerals have you been to

[grimreaper1]

First off, I'm aware this is morbid and I don't want to upset anyone, but I'm currently studying grief and loss and becoming aware of how much bereavement I have experienced.

I'm 35 years old and I've lost 6 family members, a close friend, a teenage neighbour, accompanied two close relations to funerals of people I also knew and have had a pregnancy loss. So 10 funerals and a miscarriage.

I was just wondering if others had experienced the same or less or more? I don't know if it's changed my experience of death.

AIBU in thinking it's a lot for someone my age?

5 from what I can remember. I'm in your age bracket.

One. I’m slightly younger than you. A couple of close relatives died when I was a young child so I wasn’t invited. No close relatives have died since childhood (I’m lucky, I know). The one funeral I attended was about six years ago, it was my Mum’s partner.

I’m 42.
I’ve been to 38 family funerals and 5 friends/ parents of friends funerals.

I’m 34 and I’ve been to 8

35 and 8 funerals that I can remember
4 grandparents
Friend - accident
Friend - murder
Friend - illness
Cousin accidental OD

I’m in your age group. I’ve been to 3.

31 and 2. First was a great grandparent and I was about 4 or 5. Second was my Grandma last year.

I'm a little older, I think my total is 7 or something. I'm from an average sized family.

63, I've only attended 5 in my whole life! (Mother, Father, Grandmother, Mother in Law and an old school friend who sadly died of cancer)
DH and I have decided not to have funerals ourselves, and just be cremated without any ceremony.

I'm 52 and have been to too many funerals!
Three grandparents, FIL, close uncle, a first cousin who died at 24, four-year-old daughter of a friend, neighbour from suicide in her 30s, three children who attended the same special school as my dc, numerous great aunts, uncles, second cousins, family friends, neighbours and close relatives of friends.

37, probably been to a hundred funerals, but I’m Irish and we go to a LOT.

33yrs old and Ive been to 6 funerals but lost 8 people:

mum
dad
grandma
grandpa
cousin
auntie
uncle
work colleague

I'm in your age bracket OP and I've attended 5 funerals.

31 and been to 14.

4 family
2 young people (under 18)
8 older people (over, 60)

45 and I've lost count.

In terms of family I've lost my lovely dad, 4 grandparents, various great aunts and uncles, plus been to funerals for two of my husband's grnadparents and his aunt who dies in a RTA in her early 40s.

Went to funerals for two lads I went to school with (one RTA, one solvent avuse) and another friend (RTA) before I was out of my teens.

My husband's nest friend and one of my neighbours dies of cancer in their 40s. Lost a colleague and another friend suddenly (Ione to infection, one stroke) in their 50s.

Have attended a host of other funerals for friend's parents, my parents friends, neighbours, former colleagues.

Death is a fact of life, the older you get the more funerals you go to.

39 and I’ve been to 6. 5 family and 1 school friend who died at 15.

I’m 55.

4 family funerals
8 patient funerals (I’m a GP)
6 friend funerals
30+ funerals of people from my church - generally elderly friends of my parents

I am Irish so I have no idea... in Ireland it’s common to go to a funeral if you never even met the person. Ie if a colleagues parent passes away or a friends grandparent etc. It’s more going for the person that’s alive than the one that is dead

Eight I think.
First one was my dad. I was 19.
A particularly sad one was my bosses wife who in her 40's Diagnosed and died within six weeks.
Im 64

I'm older and have been to four funerals - two family, a family friend and a neighbour. It would have been seven but my parents thought it best not to take me to any of my grandparents' funerals (my other GP died before I was born).

Same age as you and I’ve been to 11

5 grandparents/great grandparents
1 parent and 1 PIL
1 friend’s parent
2 friends
1 neighbour

I’m 41 and gave been to 5 I think that I can remember. In order

School friend (killed in car accident at 17)
Grandma
Work colleague
Grandad
Close Family friend

I lost another grandparent when I was 9 but my brother and I didn’t go.

But I’ve had much more bereavement than that. 2 suicides and another 3 deaths but was either unable to attend or not invited to funerals.

8 patient funerals (I’m a GP)

You’ve attended the funerals of patients? I’ve never heard of a GP doing that before.

I'm Irish - I couldn't even begin to count how many funerals I've been to. Between our parents, Ds, aunts, uncles, cousins there have been about 30 funerals so they were mostly full on where the deceased was laid out at home or at the funeral home with funeral mass the next day. After that I'd say easily over 100 - some I'd have gone to the funeral home, some to the corpse house and others to the actual funeral mass. Of those I'd have then gone to many of the meals/refreshments afterwards.

Too Many
My mum was one of 10, My dad was one of 8, they are all dead so lots of Aunts and Uncles funerals.
My beautiful Daughter💔💔
2 Cousins
1 Friend
Friends Parents Funerals
Old Neighbours