When death isn’t the great equaliser

While not attempting to dismiss the obvious grief of bereaved families and the undoubted comfort arising from the expressions of sympathy by friends and the community at large, the question should be raised as to the criteria and justification for State funerals.

The opportunity of the masses to express their grief may have had some validity in the past when one considers the the exalted and especially the remoteness of certain category of people.

However that divide no longer exists.