Geesh...Religion..

[Oberon]

JW's can be a particular group at times, some nice people in the group, but as a collective, well I guess that's the politics of the organisation of the group coming through. Rest assured though, that your Mother is out of all the earthly worries and politics, and she'll know what took place and why things happened as they did. As Skybird put it, funerals are for the living, not the dead.
My Grandfather was a spiritually curious person, he met with various groups, even scientologists but at the end of the day he was more of an agnostic than a devout believer in any one religion. His funeral had the whole preacher spiel, going on about this and that, I don't know precisely why it was a religious funeral, it was organised by my father and uncle, so I defer to them, but all through the ceremony, I could just see him leaning on the coffin, glasses perched on his forehead, pint glass mug of beer in one hand just shaking his head and chuckling at all the flowery descriptions that the vicar was giving, and that made me smile....and that, I think, is how he would have wanted it to be.

Sorry, if I rambled on a bit there, at the end of the day though, I would like to believe that when we die we gain an understanding of people that we could never have in this life, and we hold no grudges or misunderstandings against those we leave behind, even if they can't do the things we wanted them to do for what we left behind, which is at the end of the day, an empty shell. That's what I like to believe anyway, makes it a little easier to get by.