What is the motivation for someone to kiss a corpse in a casket?

What is the motivation for someone to kiss a corpse in a casket? What does that kiss symbolize.

I don’t know but it freaks the crap out of me. Both my grampas died in the past year and everybody was kissing them and touching theirs hands and even encouraged me to hold the ones hand. I don’t think so.

I was having panic attacks just being in the same room.

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11 Responses to “What is the motivation for someone to kiss a corpse in a casket?”

  1. misbiz, on March 9th, 2010 at 11:01 pm Said:

    Extreme emotion, or attachment. The kiss probably symbolizes the very last farewell.
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  2. Dawn, on March 9th, 2010 at 11:30 pm Said:

    Love, last goodbye.
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  3. timelady, on March 9th, 2010 at 11:46 pm Said:

    Until you lose somebody you love, you won’t know.
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  4. Red, on March 10th, 2010 at 12:21 am Said:

    Well if the dead guys comes back as a zombie, they want to know he won’t try to eat them.
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  5. Wry, on March 10th, 2010 at 12:28 am Said:

    They started that with kissing Jesus’ corpse.
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  6. SSF Tofu Beast, on March 10th, 2010 at 1:18 am Said:

    Don’t know, as I’ve never done it, but I imagine it has to do with being close to them one last time.
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  7. DALEKSUPREMACY, on March 10th, 2010 at 1:52 am Said:

    someone call ted bundy because thats his job.
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  8. John Galt, on March 10th, 2010 at 2:16 am Said:

    necrophilia
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  9. island_dreamer04, on March 10th, 2010 at 2:48 am Said:

    After the body is buried or cremated, you won’t ever see it again. For me, kissing my mom as she lay in her casket was my last chance to have any physical contact with her. It was a final goodbye to her physical body.
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  10. ☼ GƖơώ ✞ Ѡɪηǥs ☼, on March 10th, 2010 at 3:02 am Said:

    I see this as well wishes in Spiritual Love.
    This depends on each person giving and their own reasoning.
    It is what the individual perceives it to be. :D

    Peace and Blessings
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  11. CatholicSchizophrenic, on March 10th, 2010 at 3:49 am Said:

    I don’t know but it freaks the crap out of me. Both my grampas died in the past year and everybody was kissing them and touching theirs hands and even encouraged me to hold the ones hand. I don’t think so.

    I was having panic attacks just being in the same room.
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