[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Only one, my mum's.



This is the same for me, I wouldn't go to the funeral of "an acquaintance" (unless it was e.g. the parent of a close friend where I would go to show support, but none of my friends parents have died). A few of my staff like to go to the funerals of regular customers when they die... if I did that, I would have been to dozens .

I would only go to a funeral if it was a family member or an actual friend and - thankfully - I haven't lost any friends thus far, and in terms of my own family, two of my grandparents died before I was born, one when I was 5, and one when I was 7 and my parents thought I was too young to go to those funerals. So I don't actually have any "elderly" relatives to have funerals .

Three of my wife's grandparents are still alive however and now into their 80's, so I can sadly see my "number" increasing a bit over the next ten years.

It annoys me no end, people who never bothered with the person or their family when they were alive turn up to funerals... sod off!