FUNERALIZE

FACTS ON FUNERALS:

The history of funeral service is a history of mankind. Funeral customs are as old as civilization itself.
Every culture and civilization attends to the proper care of their dead. Every culture and civilization ever studied has three things in common relating to death and the disposition of the dead:

Some type of funeral rites, rituals, and ceremonies

A sacred place for the dead

Memorialization of the dead

Ok, so I am MORE than shocked to Google the word funeralize and this came up:

fu⋅ner⋅al⋅ize: Use funeralized in a Sentence
–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing.
to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.

OMG!!! Ok, so here's my story. When we moved to Greene County, Gloria and I were dumbfounded when we found out that schools were used to hold funerals. Yup, that's right, you could view the body's right there in the schools. OF course this was NOT during school hours. But this was strange to us none-the-less. BUT when someone said, "so and so will be FUNERALIZED at the high school at....." We both looked at each other and said, "Huh? Funeralized? Really?" What the goonie-goo-hoo did this mean? Until tonight when I decided to write about this experience, I never thought to Google it and I DID find the above definition.

So, for future reference, when the Good Lord decides that He wants me to "Come on Home," PLEASE do NOT mourn me. Celebrate life but I do NOT wish to be "Funeralized in a school."