funeral selfies

[angel607]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkPD1m1bpmE



i noticed a new trend going around on instagram called funeral selfies. for those who don't have instagram I posted the video above. some of these pictures have been a guy posing in front of a coffin with a dead woman laying there and he gave a peace sign hand gesture. some have been showing their outfits off saying going to a funeral. some are smiling in the car saying going to a funeral. I don't get why anyone thinks this trend is okay it's kind of creepy. I always thought going to a funeral was sad now it's all about a girls outfit or how many likes you get for a picture.

[Classicblast]

The world is going too far with phones and pictures and like the host said "self absorbing". People check their text messages in Church sometimes and that's very disrespectful.

[Jersey]

Funerals are all about paying your respects. There is a reason (in this case) why "selfie" sounds very similar to "selfish"; these people are not being respectful to the party that's passed on and instead are using their death as a platform to get attention.

Classic, in my opinion the availability of the technology we have is only making people more self absorbed and starved for attention.

[Phil]

Its absolutely true foremen at work have the right to refuse or determine if you need to have your phone that day. Brian the foreman told some kids that you are working overnight shift, anybody with any purpose in life is either at work or asleep at this hour.

They split us and I am a foreman now. I needed a kid to move the scaffolding and he is looking at his phone, I told him I don't give a damn about your text message get with the program or get written up. This 42 year old Pollock doesn't have patience for that.

So now its funerals. It has been nearly 3 years since my dad passed away, The 16th of this month will measure 3 years. I remember Jason asked if it was ok to take a picture of him in the casket. I said it was ok, but my wife kind of discouraged it and he lost interest in taking the picture and said ' I'd rather remember grandpa alive.'

He touched my dad's forehead and then his shoulder an felt badly that some of the powder must have come onto his hand and now his handprint *very lightly* was on grandpa's suit. He asked me how he can gently rub off the handprint. I told him to leave it saying that grandpa would be happy to take your handprint with him.

But selfies at a funeral just exemplifies disrespect.

[angel607]

i can understand if you wanna take a picture of a family member in the coffin but not upload it to the world with a caption killing it at pops funeral. when my grandfather died I never thought about taking a picture in the bathroom smiling asking people what they thought of my outfit. I was overcome with grief. same with when my friends mom died. I think there is a time and place for pictures. when your at a really nice place or in another state and with friends and you want to remember that memory. but people smiling at funerals like it's a party I don't get. I mean someone lost their life it's not a happy time. also below is one of the worst pictures I have ever seen on this topic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKaURGFpjRY

[Phil]

There's a lot of self indulgence in so many ways this is just another display of that.

[angel607]

yes I completely agree. people are so into themselves they don't understand what they are doing is not funny but hurtful to others.

[Phil]

This stems from a bigger problem though and this generation thinks that it revolves around them,

I recently became a foreman and I have a mostly green crew. Ok I can bring them along if they're interested. Among the 1st things I say is when you work somewhere don't let the boss hear you say 'I will not,' or "i'm not doing...'

The selfies at a funeral is more of an entitlement. The funeral is about the send off for the diseased not to show yourself.

[Kimm]

I am disappointed to learn of this but Im not really surprised. Sadly.

[Phil]

I was just at a funeral and this thread came to mind. I don't think anybody took selfies. I hope they didn't. The funeral was a local store owner who my father was friends with, I also had known his kids from school they're around my age. Which is getting to not be so young.

[Classicblast]

I am not so much shocked about people taking pictures of the body but selfies just seem way over done. Making yourself the focal point at someone's funeral or wake is obviously wrong on any plateau. That's nearly like going to a wedding and when the bride and groom are dancing crashing the dance floor with your significant other and making out. I probably shouldn't even say that out of sarcasm someone might get an idea.