“When my great-grandmother died when she was 99 (!!), her SON gave her eulogy (1 of 5 children.) When my great-grandmother was alive, apparently she wasn’t the nicest person. She didn’t like that my grandma married a Catholic (my grandpa) and made her distaste known. At her funeral, her son gave the most demeaning eulogy in the history of eulogies. He stated how much she had hated my grandpa and how she made my grandma’s life miserable because of it. He mentioned how she burned many bridges in life, and that hopefully in death that it wouldn’t matter. I was so upset. My whole life, my great-grandma had been a semi-inspiration to me. She got cancer in her 30s in her arm, had it amputated and still managed to sew, make crafts like dodecahedronal calendars and weird 1940s and 50s crafts like that (she didn’t let her disability get her down.) It just left a bad taste in my mouth. Why is her son, a Christian, bad mouthing her in a church at her funeral?? I just wonder why he did something like that. That is not very Christian like or very forgiving of her ‘discretions’ in life.”

(Thanks Jen)