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24. So I went to my husband's uncle's funeral last night

Let me just say I am (mostly) black and Native American. My husband is Mexican. I was raised Methodist and Baptist. The service was mostly in Spanish. I've taken 10 years of Spanish so I understood most of it, but I didn't understand a lot of why they did so many prayers. I stopped counting after the 16th Hail Mary. There were many other prayers thrown in, but I kept thinking about this thread. I bent my head but as everyone else prayed my husband and I just stood there silent and thought we wanted the service to hurry up and end, but we hoped his aunt would find peace. However, I did my best to not fall into the trap of praying to some invisible God for the family's well being. Instead we donated to pay for part of the funeral. He had no life insurance and the whole family chipped in. Anybody have any ideas of what more we can do in this sort of situation? Whereas everyone else is praying for them, we want to take real action.