How many funerals have you been to in your life?
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Vampyre Bat
ANSWERS: 99
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probably about 20....but 3 were my family, the others were patients i looked after
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I have no idea. Probably around 8. See http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/112493
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twice only and i hopefully don't wish for more...
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Grandfather, one friend, another friend, mom, dad, second grandfather, friend of mom-in-law: 7 and let's say plus 2 to represent let's say a couple more that I can't remember, since I know I must have been to more. So at this time my answer would be 9.
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15..all family except 3
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To many.
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I only went to 3. My grandfather's, my friend's mom and my ex-husband's father's.
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Too many. Any at all is too many for me......
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I have only ever been to two. My great grandmother's, and one for my friend's mother and brother who were killed in the bridge collapse here in Minneapolis. That was a really tough one.
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none
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Minimum 10 and maximum about 15
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Just the one, my grandmother's. I remember feeling scared when they lowered the coffin into the ground, because it was raining. She hated the rain.
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It has to be around 120. I figure that I have gone to at least 3 a year over the past 40 years.
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I've never counted and it's going to make me sad to think back on them all now...all the people who are gone from my life. My maternal grandmother came from a family of thirteen. She's now the only one left. I was close with all of those great aunts and uncles and went to all of their funerals, even the one that was on my sixteenth birthday. I've lost numerous younger cousins to car accidents and other mishaps. My senior year of high school there was a rash of suicides and drunken car crashes that took a number of friends and acquaintances. And a few years ago, my best friend was driving her family to a holiday skiing getaway and their car hit black ice and rolled into a ditch...Killed her mother and father and paralyzed her younger brother from the neck down. Do I really need to count them? :( It's got to be over thirty by now...
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I don't keep count. Actually, I stopped going in the past two years. It doesn't do me much good and I figure that the family needs this time to be together. I just reflect on the person in my heart and value the live I still have, it's a sobering experience. I would say in my lifetime, probably about 50 or so.
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Quite a few Im not sure how many.....when I was in the RAF I had to go to many funerals as part of my job...but on a more personal count thankfully only 3...but thats 3 too many :(
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6 or 7. Three of those were family. The rest were my dads friends who died in the 9/11 attacks. He went to so many funerals that year...
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too many. most were family but some were people I didn't really know.
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Far too many, last year alone i went to 16, 5 of which were in the same month!
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Far too many to count.
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More than 30 easily.
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To many
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i have been to too many,and i've missed some i dearly wish i could've attended. family,old friends,co-workers,military buddies,it seems there were things i wanted to tell each of them and didnt get the time before it was too late. some of these people were taken away too early in life.those are the ones that hurt the most. i've always believed that everything in life has a reason,and it may seem cruel or unjust but, the reasons one day will be clear.
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Only one. My grandpa's. It was a horrible experience and I refuse to go to any other funerals unless it's my sister's, god forbid. Richard Shines
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Probably around 7... Seven too many.
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Dos
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10 total, when I was in middle through high school every single boyfriend I had lost his grandmother. I was horribly cursed...Other then boyfriends grandmothers I've been to a father in laws funeral, a cousins, my fathers, and my grandfathers. I hope to never go to another funeral ever again.
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Too many, but then one is too many yo...
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17 & I still end up crying :S
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Probably around a hundred. I don't like to go to wakes so I often send sympathy cards.
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WAY too many for my tastes... Paternal Grandfather when I was 6 (I barely remember). Paternal Step-Grandfather Coworker's daughter Maternal Grandfather Brother's wife's mother Ex-Wife's Father (we were married at time) Paternal Aunt (My uncle's wife) (Pallbearer) Maternal Grandmother Paternal Aunt's Father Ex-wife's Mother (we WERE married for 13 years & she was my kids' grandmother) Paternal Grand Aunt (Grandmother's sister) Paternal Grandmother (last year) Didn't get to go to my Maternal Uncle's (Mom's Bro) - Was in Arizona, or Paternal Aunt's Mother Don't remember going to Paternal Grand Uncle, and didn't go to Paternal Grand Aunts' I AM worried... My parents, and their siblings and spouses are ALL over 65 or so, and MY siblings parents are young, either.
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Three Unfortunately; a fourth may be coming to soon.
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Lucky for me, I've never been to one yet...
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I've been quite fortunate. I've only been to one (my boyfriend's grandfather's), and I've never met him.
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Just my maternal grandfather's, i was 4 and I felt so awful because my mom gave me a white rose to put on his grave, and I accidentally gripped it too hard and broke it in half. He also had military honors and I was confused by all the shooting.
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Two. My grandmother and a friends mother.
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too many so far
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30 maybe more
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more than I would like to count, my family has gone from normal size to just my sister & I now most everyone else has pasted on except our kids and my hubby's side isn't much better, although we still have his Mom most of the rest have pasted and to top it off I work at a cemetery too....
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More than I want to think about.
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As far as I can remember I have probably been to 3 or 4. Definitely not more than 5.
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Five, and I'm only 14.
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3. My father's, my mother's and a girlfriends mother's.
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I have been to many funerals before. I can't even count. In my previous church we have more older people than younger ones. Therefore we conduct more funerals than marriages.
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zero but alot of people in my life are getting old now and dad has cancer
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Too bloody many.
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Seven, and I'm only 16 years old. Sad day.
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3 times
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Too many to count but I know I will only go to one where I am the guest of honour!
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3 1/2. I 'attended' my Mom's via telephone.
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I'm an old lady - too many to count.
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17 that I can remember......3 just last year. I'm only 24.
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probably around 15--I'm in my late 40's
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Just one. My grandmas.
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Only 4, one of which was today. It was the first one where they lit incense in the chapel and I choked on the fumes though.
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a few
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I am 28 and can only recall attending 7 funerals but probably way more than that.
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a lot,but my grandma said,it gets harder at her age because its a lot of friends and family,makes me sad..
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Only one when I was really young. It was my grandfather.
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Somewhere around 35 :)
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many, but the ones that were close close to me just one of my couzin he was 19 =[...
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6.
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12 that I can think of off the top of my head, many more wakes than funerals.
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Less than 10
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my 11 yr old brothers, i was 12..then my dad's , i was 18...then my grandpa's...then my 21 yr' old brother, i was 23, then my grandmother who committed suicide in my house in my daughters bedroom...i was 24...my nephew, 16, my neice, 17...been to some in between all these, but i pretty much couldn't take it anymore..go and sign but no funerals..... 7 in my family....
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too many unfortunatley :O(
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Six or Seven
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4 or 5 of them.
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i've been to 3 my whole life.
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3 also.Uncle,friend,friends mother.
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Too many to count
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988.
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Only 3, my parents and a girlfriend's mother.
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1 my grandma minnies
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one. im not goin to my own haha!
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4
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Probably around ten, a mixture of family and friends.
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Too many
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Atleast 7 and one of them was my best friends funeral. It was pretty bad he was only 17 and everybody was screaming around the casket. Such a funny friend he was one of the ones that always made me laugh with tears in my eyes. Yeah good times. I must get my humor from a few of my friends.
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1 my grandpa.
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one my husbands grandmother, i was a mess.
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many of them so many i just stop going.not to be bogus but have of the time i find out and it is to late so i am there in spirit
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my father, my friends father, and my friends who was killed by a drunk driver so that makes 3, which is 3 too many
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Too many to count unfortunately.
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Just one. My wife's grandma.
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Probably around 15 or 20.
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2. My great aunties & my great grandfathers. I swear that I'm never going to another one after seeing an open casket.
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Thousands. I am a funeral director.
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I have attended at least 20-25 funerals of family and friends. There have been a few that due to distances or circumstances, attendance was impossible.
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way to damn many. with in the span of about 9 months i went to about 13 of them.
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i am only 20 years old and i have been to 7. It should have been 9, but believe it or not my afterschool job when i was working at a supermarket would not let me have time of for 2 of the funerals! (i lost 6 friends in one accident, that is why it is such a big number)
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Wat too many to even count.
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4.
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from what I can remember four or five but the most recent one I attend was my grandmother may 10th 2009 and I whish that I never had to
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Can't remember the exact no. since birth but it must be over 20 in the last 5 years (including my own husband this past summer!). My aunt was saying that women must always keep a funeral dress ready when she hits 50 (I'm 51!) and I now realize the hard way that she is absolutely right. The sad fact is that ones tend to attend funeral more often with age and my observation is that it starts out at around late 40's.
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Too many. +5
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15 maybe more
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too many to count
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