I don't get it.

I don't understand the point of visitations.

It's so macabre. A bunch of people in black lingering around a dead body. The person they loved is no longer there, so I just don't understand why they want to see what form they used to take... lying there without them.

I've heard some people say that it's the only way to have closure - to see the body lying in the coffin. But I just can't believe that such a thing helps. It seems like it would just be heartbreakingly painful. Agonizing. It was for me, anyway.

Perhaps this is just another one of society's traditions that I'm in disharmony with.