# Exes and Funerals

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exes-and-funerals/750682>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 31, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exes-and-funerals/750682 "2016-03-31T00:46:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exes-and-funerals/750682/21 "2016-03-31T14:52:01Z")

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Yes. If my ex died, I would go, & I know vise versa… Matter of fact, he traveled the longest distance to be there for me when my mother passed… I really love my ex, we just weren’t meant to be.

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exes-and-funerals/750682/22 "2016-03-31T16:34:55Z")

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Nope. Not the least bit interested in doing so. Our children would certainly attend, but I would feel not the slightest bit of obligation.

I would not want her showing up at mine either. Knowing her, she’d do it just to appear as if she’s taking the high road. Really it’d just be to publicly wash her karma.

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exes-and-funerals/750682/23 "2016-03-31T18:28:57Z")

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> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#):
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> If your ex (ex-spouse or ex-SO) dies before you, will you go to their funeral? If you do attend, will you likely be welcome or will you probably encounter a cold shoulder from your ex’s next of kin?

I suspect word of her death would likely not reach me until long after the event, and even if it did, I don’t have any reason to think most of her family would want to invite me.

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> If you predecease the ex, do you want them to come to your funeral? Will your kin welcome them or shun them?

No, though my mom would probably be OK with it.

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