I have to go to that kid's wake this afternoon, which causes me to wonder- what is the point of a wake? It's a corpse. It's not the person. Whoever the person was was in the chemicals in their brain that made up their personality. The person ceased to exist as soon as the body stopped animating itself.

I think putting a body on display is a little morbid and wholy unnessessary.

People have such a strange way of dealing with death.