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Churches Lash Out Against Outrageous Funeral Fashions

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 30 March 2005
The Jamaica Conference of Seventh Day Adventists Churches is considering the screening of relatives and friends of deceased persons before agreeing to perform funeral services in light of the outrageous and frankly, 'fashionably challenged' persons that have appeared to pay their last respects to their 'loved ones'. The decision was apparently sparked by the recent ordeal from which the Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr Omar Davies, had to be whisked away to safety by his bodyguards after the interruption of a funeral service he was attending. During the service, shooting began outside the church in which several cars including the hearse were damaged. Whatever happened to the days when you would attend a funeral service and all you could hear was moaning and weeping in the church? Whatever happened to the days when someone actually felt the sorrow for a loved one? Did those days just suddenly decide to fly out the window? A funeral service just is not what it used to be. Nowadays you are looking at a "Fashuneral" - a fashion-based funeral. And not just any type of "Fashuneral", the type of outfits, not to mention the outrageous hairstyles, make-up designs and jewellery that are entering the churches. These are what you would expect to see at one of those dancehall sessions. But fasten your seatbelts, people, because it doesn't stop there. These people have opted to completely forego all traditional proceedings at these funerals. They have taken it upon themselves to smoke and even offer marijuana among other things for sale inside the church. Do these people have not even a smidgen of respect for the house of God? We think not. Then at the end of the day, they argue and demonstrate that it is discrimination when it is they themselves who have been the major factors at play. After all is said and done, we can understand the point the churches are making in deciding to undergo the procedure of screening people before a funeral. Sherilla Gordon and Melbourne Stewart, Observer TeenAge writers March 29, 2005 Jamaica Observer

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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