Does death make you cry?

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My last surviving grandparent died several years ago. She was 93 years old. Her funeral was held in the chapel at the cemetery. Although the cemetery was huge and there were acres of graves available. But she was interred in a drawer, with a number on the door of it. Weirdest funeral I've ever been to. She bought the drawer many years before, when her husband died (I think what's left of his corpse is in a drawer in there somewhere, too). It's like an apartment building of drawers lining the walls of this very hushed, low-lighted hallway. There are many floors in the place, and there are hundreds of bodies in each one.

Anyway, most of her friends were long dead, so the only people at the funeral were my parents, my brothers, stepsister & stepbrother and our assorted children. The surviving relatives. We listened while the chaplain (who never had met her) said a few words about Grandma, put her in the drawer, and then went out to have lunch in a local bar.

Not long afterward, my dog died, and we had a very elaborate funeral. Around five or six friends came and also most of the neighbors & the neighborhood animals wandered over too. It's difficult to dig a grave here with a shovel b/c it's mostly rock, so people were taking turns digging. Then we put her in the grave, and we each put something in with her . . . I had a poem that I wrote for her, and a crystal; one of my friends had brought some feathers, my kids had written letters to her. I think everyone was crying. She was a really good dog. Grandma was a wonderful person as well, but I could never really get close to her because I couldn't understand a word she said. Didn't make me want to cry when she died.

As others wrote, when the deceased person is very old and had been declining for some time, the funeral feels less sad to me than if it were a younger person. I don't like it when young people die.

Awww, that's so sweet and it's made me all teary-eyed.

It's not so much the death as the quality of the farewell that could make me cry. That could be the music, things people do or the choice of words.
The (mostly old) people funerals I've been to were rather business-like affairs and like your Grandma's, borderline bizarre. (hope that doesn't seem insensitive, but I couldn't help think that those drawers sounded more like filing cabinets full of dead people - and that is pretty bizarre).

Rezing this old thread.

I don't really cry except when people are angry at me. Doesn't mean I don't miss people/animals that die, or get sad. I just don't deal with tears. I guess I am somewhat emotionally distant from people too even the ones who are close to me. I used to be really close to my mom but then she had 4 other younger kids and now don't even talk to her that much.

Oh yeah and I cry during movies for some reason, even if it's not really that sad. IDK why, maybe it's the music they play.

No. I was very thankful when cancer finally killed my grandfather. He was in so much pain before he died. I was glad it was over. It may help that I'm theistic. Same story with my dog, great grandmother etc. I don't mind death.

<--- Doesn't cry at death.

OP, You are not heartless. You just don't connect in the same way with that as some other people might. For me it depends on how close I am to the person. Sometimes I cry a lot for a very long time, sometimes I don't cry at all. Sometimes I even get a little scared. there are also times when people I have known well die and I feel nothing. So to me it depends on the depth and intimacy of the connection I had with them.

when the vet said my cat's going to die soon, i cried every day, several times a day, for months.
and then she ran away for two months, and i kept crying.
and then she came back and i stopped crying.
and then she died, and then i didnt cry as much, because it was the knowledge she was going to die, and then her disappearance, and i was so sure she was dead, and then the death itself. all in the space of a few months. i subconsciously trained myself to not think about this so i could function. and when my other cat died, i got over it so much better and so much faster because of that. it's like getting an electric shock several times, and the body just gets used to it.
as a grownup, except for my cats' death, i almost never cried.

It really depends on who passes on, and how connected you are. If it is a family member, close friend, animal, or even a favorite celebrity, I would probably cry. About a decade ago, my kitten of eight weeks passed away because it got outside and got ran over. I cried so much because she was so young and it was hard to get over.

I did cry
when two people died.
because,
it was scary.
and
I did miss them.
other people,
I do not cry.
because,
I do not know them.

Death of loved ones definitely makes me cry. And their deaths keep making me cry for a very long time.

Dont feel bad if you do or don't cry at a death or at a funeral. When my grandfather died I had a LOT to do. I didn't cry at all and we were very, very close. He was 83, but it was still kind of a tragic death because he had prostate cancer that was diagnosed too late and judging by his overall health/family history he should have lived another 10 years. I remember when we said our 'final goodbyes' before they closed the casket just before the funeral service and my mom and my aunt and my cousins were all crying. But my brother and I were standing a bit apart from it all. He could see I wanted to cry and he told me not to as my grandfather wouldn't want me to as I was about to deliver the eulogy. I agreed with my brother. My grandfather would have told me to buck up because I had a job to do and needed to do it well.

I cried a little bit as we were leaving the funeral home.

I didn't cry after that. Although I was an emotional wreck.

A few months later when Johnny Cash died, I bawled my eyes out when I found out. I was sad that Cash had died but I think I was really crying for my grandfather. It was somehow easier.

I do get really annoyed with what I see as over-the-top crying at deaths. I often feel that this is a cry for attention more than crying for sadness. But this is as much a cultural thing as an emotional or wiring thing on my part.