If you're looking for personal value out of attending funerals, there's good evidence for psychological benefits to doing so. Grieving is hard. Humans are evolved to process negative emotions through complex rituals. Funerals are one of the most important rituals because death is extraordinarily traumatic and universal to all humans.
Funerals aren't about saying goodbye to corpses. They're collective, complex rituals that aid the grieving process.
Funerals aren't about saying goodbye to corpses. They're collective, complex rituals that aid the grieving process.