Last week, I arrived home from a funeral and decided to pop into my home office to make sure everything was prepared for the return to work day ahead. As I sat down to log-in my laptop, still feeling a bit wobbly from the day I had, I was greeted by the Nintendo Talking Flower toy informing me that “wasn’t life great.”
That was the point where I decided it was time to take its batteries out.
This is why funerals are, psychologically, a bad idea.
Wakes, the whole intent of them, are much better for morale. It’s better to celebrate the life someone had, even if the death wasn’t natural or premature.
The flower got it right, that was kinda what they needed to hear at that moment but they were in the wrong headspace.