Talking To Mr B Just Now ,Something We Were Watching And Someone Had Died, I Said People Use To Draw The Curtains Years Ago When There Was A Death

[Bobbisox1]

He’d never heard of it, has anyone else?

[-SharonA-]

No!!! Why would you do that??

[hellywelly4]

Everybody in the street did on the day of the funeral.

[tonyav]

I remember people doing that when I was a kid, Bobbi.

[Milo2]

I remember some of my relatives doing this years ago.

[Redhelen72]

https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/416911-do-people-still-cover-the-windows-for-deaths-in-the-housefamily/

[andres]

Yes. On the day of the funeral.

[Bobbisox1]

Thank God, I thought it was just me, and men would remove their hats when a cortège passed , builders would stop working and bow their heads

[LeonBlank1995]

We certainly did. And the funeral procession always went down the road the departed lived on, regardless of where the undertakers or the church was. And we all stood outside our front door with our hats off and right arm across the chest.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, it was widely done in my area.

[-SharonA-]

Yes people stop on the streets, hats are dobbed. I've even seen salutes.

[cashier]

I still do if it is someone local to me.

[Bobbisox1]

Sharon I’d imagine closing the curtains was when they used to bring the body home when neighbours would go in and file past it

[Bobbisox1]

Cashier, I’ve stopped when a funeral car has passed

[DTCwordfan]

and the body left via the front door....in the Netherlands, they only use the front door for this....hard if you only have the one entrance door!

[Bobbisox1]

I haven’t heard that DT ;0(

[DTCwordfan]

In a small Scottish town, no less than Auchtermuchty, a man was leaving a coffee shop with his espresso when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery.

A black hearse containing a coffin was being followed by a second black hearse with another coffin about 50 feet behind it.

Behind the second hearse was a solitary mourner walking a dog on a leash, but behind him, a short distance back, were about 200 men walking in single file.

The man with the coffee respectfully approached the man walking the dog and said:

"I am so sorry to disturb you, but I've never seen a Scottish funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"

"My wife's."

''I'm sorry for your loss. What happened to her?"

"She yelled at me and my dog attacked and killed her."

Shocked, he inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"

The mourner answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog turned on her."

A very poignant and touching moment passed between the two men.

Then the man with the coffee said, "Can I borrow your dog?"

The mourner replied, "Get in line."

[Bobbisox1]

^^^ hahaha

[-SharonA-]

Lol!

[woofgang]

When my mother was buried, we met the hearse at the crem, her neighbours were quite shocked at the lack of respect but its what she wanted.

[Bobbisox1]

Wolfie, things have changed for the better I’d say, our friend passed away a year ago to the day, it was his wish that we all dressed in bright colours and played ‘his’ music at the Wake , best funeral I’ve attended