Watching a funeral on my laptop

Nanof3 - I am so glad you were able to be there to say your goodbye, even if only online.

That's lovely SueDonim. We've not had to be involved with an online funeral service but if we did I think we'd be do the same.
The last big event we attended before lockdown was a huge funeral. I wonder if we'll ever attend one like that again.

We’ve attended one online funeral, that of a friend. It was very touching and we were grateful to have been invited to say farewell to our friend.

We both dressed as we would have done had it been an in-person funeral, and we then had a toast to him and a ‘thanks for the memories‘ with just the two of us.

I think it would have felt very odd to not have had some way of saying goodbye to someone who has been in your life for 60-odd years.

I haven’t done this online but reading your post brought back my mum and Dads funerals 8 years ago it still brings me to tears now
Sorry Nano it doesn’t matter what age it hurts so much doesn’t it ?
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I have been “virtually” present at 2 streamed funerals, but of course the close family were present in the crematorium chapel.
Was it too far for you to be there in person?
It is a godsend for those who live too far away or perhaps abroad to attend personally.
I found it was a bit like sitting at the back of a funeral of somebody who was perhaps just a friend.