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Traditional Twentieth Century funeral services focused heavily on heavenly rewards and made little of the earthly grief of survivors. (Bregman, 2001, p. 331) it was as if life was nothing but a long and complicated prelude to death. Numerous individuals; however, have challenged this approach, preferring instead to recognize that human life is something of value. The deceased is someone to be remembered for their unique contributions to the lives of those around them. "To celebrate the uniqueness of an individual life at a funeral is more true to the character of God as creator of nature and persons, than to disallow particularities and focus exclusively on a universal, theocentric but excessively abstract message." (Bregman, 2001, p. 331) by humanizing the experience of death, baby boomers try to make sense out of an essentially incomprehensible process. Traditional religion appears alien to many baby boomers, their own human achievements are what is tangible. Real world achievements link them to the earth as a living planet, and bind them to a vaster human society that is represented in microcosm by the world of their families, friends, job, and so forth. Personal achievements became personal contributions to a world that lives on beyond them. Modern funerals attempt to place the individual within this context; to lay claim to a piece of eternity. The personal speeches, poems, songs, and other presentations, that have become such a feature of contemporary funeral services, reveal each person as a kind of god in miniature. Divinity works through us all, and together we all form parts of a cosmic whole - or so run the beliefs of many baby boomers. Each individual's contributions are but pieces...
The story of the individual's life is a form of liturgy.
Baby Boomers have transformed the funeral service. With an emphasis on individuality in all aspects of social relations, the baby boomers have made the process of death a highly individual rite of passage. The choice of how to dispose of the body often reflects the individual's concern with the environment and her or his place therein. Cremation can be a way of "giving back" to the earth. Baby boomers are also more concerned with the processes of death than those who went before them. Thoughts of a gruesome death have resulted in a greater emphasis on a life well-lived. Baby boomers wish to be remembered as the individuals they actually were rather than as the idealized types that a distant deity might have desired them to be. One's life is a part of the cosmos. One's acts shape the world that remains to those left behind. Baby boomers believe the funeral service should be a reflection of the individual and his or her place in the real world. In every way, the baby boomer outlook reflects a world that is at once vast and personal - life is a part of death.
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