Who chooses not to have a funeral?

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it's a symbolic personal ritual that partly serves as a marker in one's life. if an event has significance for a person, it is not unnatural to want to symbolize it in one way or another. wedding is the same thing. people don't really need to throw some elaborate gathering to mark their personal relationship/commitment, but they do, and it is not unreasonable.

we are all also social beings, and these types of things are an expression of that social nature.

i'd rather people ritualize their personal life and events important to them, than external notions such as god in their life (which, unfortunately they have the tendency for). for this reason, national holidays and christmas, for example, mean nothing to me. the events with personal significance and importance are the ones to be celebrated. that's my opinion.

All I read from this, is that is meant for other people other than yourself. I don't give a shit about other people.

I dunno about Italia, but at least here both events you mentioned have an important religious component, which only puts me off of both even more.

I wonder if I can legally bind people to not throw such an event after I'm dead..