Death/Funeral Etiquette Advice, please

[casimendocina]

Originally Posted by monster

You're in Aus, though, right? No offence, but Americans do some of these things differently, hence the question.

True. No offence taken at all.

Just heard about 2 hours ago that an old family friend who we haven't seen since the last funeral (3 years ago) passed away on Sunday (cancer). I called another friend who I've seen more recently to let him know and we had a semi-lengthy discussion about the justification for going/not going. In this case, I'll be going because I had a lot of time for the person who passed away and still have for his whole family and they were a really significant part of my teenage years. I'm interested to hear people's viewpoints (even though I'm not wavering about the decision that I've made).