Humanist vs Catholic/Christian funerals?

Neither. It is much better to celebrate the life of a loved one. Have a party/gathering, invite all their friends and family and enjoy it in a way that they would have liked.

Some cultures actually do this and the celebrations they hold are wonderful and not in any way disrespectful.

That would be Claire Rayner, former head of the Humanist Association. Basically, like a religious funeral but without the religious bit; and consequently with an emphasis on how the deceased made the most of the one life they had, as opposed to some drivel about the sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life.

The death of our bodies marks our passage from this physical temporal realm into the spiritual eternal realm.

We hope and pray that the soul of the deceased goes home to God (even if that means making a stop in Purgatory first).

That is what death means for a Catholic. The Catholic funeral is two-fold. First, it is a celebration of the deceased having lived a spiritually fruitful life. Second, because of this spiritually fruitful life, the soul of the deceased goes home to God.

"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God". It's not wrong to focus on God during a funeral. Focussing on God does not mean the deceased is being totally ignored.

My wife died a few years back and we decided on a humanist funeral as she hated religion. It was far warmer and, in some places, even funny.

Most of us in the UK have grown out of belief in the supernatural and the desperate need for an afterlife.

I could almost say I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody who thinks rationally about life.

Not believing the truth is still the truth,

and a lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it.

To deprive anyone especially a loved of their very last right ( A Christian Service) is to rob the dead as sure as you broke into their coffin, or stole something they left in this world.

Robing the dead is the most despicable crime and christians believe those guilty will have to answer for it. Who would want that that on their conscience.

I much prefer Christian. i find funerals thatgive no hope of eternal life and the victory of love over death depressing and, at best ,lacking.

I think that the deceased should be honored(if deserving) and remembered if the person was not primarily a source of pain fro the relatives and others,but i also want to be lifted up spiritually.

I recently lost a loved one and the Catholic Mass, the preaching and the singing of the funeral were very encouraging and moving.

definitely the humanist funeral.....a funeral is about a person that has died, not an intangible concept someone chooses to believe in

whatever the deceased would have preferred. I mean, I know he/she would be dead and it wouldn't matter, but it wouldn't feel right if you had a deceased catholic in a hindu burial ceremony right?

Why waste it on some fictional character?

No one with any sense could possibly disagree with you.