My cousin by marriage had a wake for his mom last night. He's a Jehovah's Witness and so are his cousins ( 3 brothers ) . Two of the brothers are disfellowshipped and the oldest brother serves as a ministerial servant.
I walk in the funeral home and see one of the disfellowshipped brothers sitting in the last row of seats. He never got up from his seat . The second disfellowshipped brother sat in the break room all night and stood by the back door all night.
I make small talk with the middle brother by the break room. He tells me that he found out that his aunt died by a posting on his facebook page. He tells me that he's had no contact with his two brothers in years.
As we're standing by the break room, his ministerial servant brother walks in with his wife and proceeds to walk right by him. No hand shake , no greeting whatsoever. He walks right past his other brother that is sitting in the last row and sits near the front of the funeral home.
Around closing time, the two disfellowshipped brothers walk up to the front to pay their last respects to the family. The brother (who is a ministerial servant ) sees his two brothers walking to the front and proceeds to get up with his wife and walk out of the funeral home.
What a cruel and heartless organisation! Has it come to the point where shaking hands at a funeral is forbidden?