Jt,
****i have given furneral talks and the best part is YOU CAN COUNT THE TIME ---IF YOU ARE THE SPEAKER****
I was talking to my lady this morning about this very thing. One of my jw family members died yesterday.....
Her reaction was one of total disbelief. The sheer gual almost bordering on evilness of this practice of using someone's hour of grief, to 'give a sales pitch' is beyond the average non-dubs capacity to understand.
I think Pamk related where an elder assigned to give the funeral talk, actually would not allow her to read the poem she wrote, and then to top it off, changed her words of what little he did share with those attending.
Yet these self-righteous 'proclaimer's of the kingdom' see nothing in the least wrong with such conduct. They seem blinded to even the most traumatic of lifes events....death..... doesn't even phase or deter them from their mandated mantras.
Danny