The traditional funeral has become so depressing as to have sunk to the level of a social faux pas—insulting to the memory of the deceased and a miserable duty to be endured by both survivors and attendees. For the first time in the history of criticism it is called out for the counterproductive, psychologically harmful, and even vulgar exhibition of “doom and gloom” that it is.  In a complete and refreshing break from convention, The Funeral Critic unabashedly rejects the miserable sadness which mar and degrade funerals into vulgar wallowings in woe, and seeks to elevate them into genuinely positive, spiritually-healing experiences.