a closed casket funeral isn’t hiding from death… it’s respecting the final rest of a loved one instead of pumping them full of formaldehyde, doing shittons of makeup, and pinning their jaw shut so they don’t look like a corpse. the final face one makes in death is a grotesque one, i’ve seen it firsthand. a funeral is a peaceful send-off, not a peep show.
see, i’m completely fine with that. that sounds very familial and respectful to me.
what i don’t like is this thing they seem to like in anglophone countries where the body is prepped for viewing. that weirds me the hell out.