Why are flowers and wreaths given at funerals?

Flowers at a funeral is an old tradition. In the old days they did not have the technology to embalm bodies properly so they would start the domposition process quicker. With that being said, people used to bring lots of flowers to cover up the stink of the dead body. The wreath was the normal set up for the flowers "A ring of posies". Remember the old childrens song... Ring around the rosies pockets full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down? It literally means rings of roses, rings of posies, this is what you bring when we all die. It was a game for children at funerals to play. Hope this helps :)

Why are flowers and wreaths given at funerals?
years ago there was no such thing as embalming, so a body was washed only, laid on a table or stone slab, intime the body turns, begins to decay, and a smell omitted from it, so flowers were laid about it to mask the smell,





today the process of embalming happens, but in the 17th, 18th century, the dead were placed in lead lined coffins, this sort of mummifyed them,





then embalming occurred formaldehyde is put inside the body, all blood removed, this acts as a sheild to make the person much more pleasent to view before burial, also germ free, but eventually it would turn decay begins and the process starts, you go from flesh, to liquid, bones grim really, but thats all i can say, on the matter,
Reply:I think its to show respect for the dead.
Reply:It is a mark of respect, but there is an element of disguising odours before modern embalming techniques were introduced. The ring of roses poem was about the plague, at that time people believed that bad smells =disease and that by having a good smell disease could be avoided. As is evidenced in the last line... "Atishoo Atishoo, we all fall down!
Reply:it's a personal choice if you want to .Some people don't want anything or they choose to have the money spent on worth while charities. Don't really know who ever started it off but I guess if you were to go on the net you would find something to ease your curiosity x
Reply:in day gone by when undertakers did not treat the body it would smell - the flowers covered the smell
Reply:Same reason they are given at weddings.





Pagan symbol of life eternal; both beautiful and carrying the seeds of the future.





A flower dies life is reborn.





Virginity being the flower that should die in marraige or at least when Pagans were in charge.
Reply:i really don't know