How important are funerals?

I’ve never been to one. Sometimes I hear about certain ones and experiences that makes it sound like they have or go to funerals out of tradition or expectation. And that it was aesthetically a funeral but nothing really happened to bring closure or it made things worse or is traumatizing; whatever non intrinsic thing that funerals are expected to have is missing.

What is that non intrinsic thing?

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Steve42 · 56-60, M

It depends on why you go. If you go for yourself you will be disappointed and irritable. If you go offering to console those that need consoling, you will find you get a lot out of it.