"Traveling to funerals was once an important family rite, but with greater secularity and a mobile population increasingly disconnected from original hometowns, watching a funeral online can seem better than not going to a funeral at all. Social media, too, have redrawn the communal barriers of what is acceptable when relating to parents, siblings, friends and acquaintances."
—
While I am offended by those smart phone addicts who are looking at their screens in the middle of a funeral service, or even worse, tweeting or responding to emails (why even go, I wonder), streaming services is a great idea considering that so many of us are now global citizens with friends and family everywhere.
