Before-After-Life.

Much to come on this.

Chatting to my Dad, while on a walk out in the (rare for this weather) sun, a woman drove by, that I mentioned look like his Mom, my Gran, He agreed!
This bought up his Fathers' passing due to emphysema in the late 70's. And his Mothers passing a few years back.
What I found particularly moving, and very important about these 'passings' and a few others that we discussed as we walked, was his 'Getting it Right' to manage to see people who were important to him, and say his farewells before the opportunities passed on.

I cannot agree more, with the closing of those separate yet joined chapters in our own lives' with others.
I managed to have contact with my First Father before he died, but missed the opportunity in doing it in person. Something I have regretted.
Regrets aside, I believe funerals are for the living. The Dead, if present, in some other form, surely know the true feeling of all those present, and the emotions of those who could not attend, and Why.

In the end, it's all revealed, even if we really don't know, either way.