COFFINS in the Kingdumb hall.....

by kid-A 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  kid-A

  I recall going to several JW funerals as a small kid where the coffin had been brought into the hall, a service that must have been provided by

  the funeral parlour. However, since the early 80s, I have never again attended a JW funeral with a casket present in the hall. Has anyone?

  Did the WTS change some formal policy about this? Is there now an "anti-coffin" policy in effect for JW funerals?

  Certainly vitually all other religious funerals I have attended had the casket brought to the church, and

  either opened or closed during the eulogy.
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  truthsetsonefree

  Interesting, I have had the same experience. Now I don't see any Memorial services at the Hall unless the person draws a crowd. Like 200 or more.
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  jason bourne

  Yes.... they still do that in the UK....i went to one last year like that
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  jason bourne

  The casket was in the hall at the front but unopened
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  Finally-Free

  I've been to a lot of JW funerals, and the body of the deceased was only at 2 of them. Neither of these 2 had "memorials" in the kingdom hall - only in the funeral home. One of the funerals was not of a JW, but the husband of a "study". My PO gave the talk. The other was the funeral of an elderly woman who was a JW who lived in a seniors home. You could count the JWs in attendance on 2 hands. I went in support of the family, though I didn't know the woman. At the last minute I was asked to be a pallbearer because there weren't enough people who knew her there. So there was a total of 2 JW pallbearers - the rest were funeral home employees.

  But I've never seen or heard of a coffin in a kingdom hall.

  W
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  jason bourne

  And having been brought up in the WT seeing the casket go by me in the hall made me feel uneasy and a little nervous....even though i had seen his lifeless body in the hospital bed........very sad!
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  BluesBrother

  All the J W funerals that I attended (including one that I conducted ) were held at the non denominational chapel at the local crematorium . I heard of one held at the graveside as it was a burial .

  More recently my wife attended a Kingdom Hall memorial service. I am told that the coffin was there at the hall, closed.

  (I wonder if they counted him into the attendance figure?)
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  KW13

  it never happened at our hall, i'd be a bit freaked out lol
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  Bumble Bee

  I've only been to one funeral where the coffin was at the KH. This was about 12 years ago.

  Any other funeral - if there was a visitation, the coffin was at the funeral home, memorial service at the KH.

  It was a bit of a shock to see the casket there, and stand quietly while it was being wheeled out, then the graveside burial. I'd never experienced something like that before.

  BB
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  agapa37

  I have been to several funerals in the last several yrs of brothers and sisters where the caskets were brought into the Kingdom Hall