re: Open casket funerals are more emotional

I've already requested a closed casket, as has my Mom. My Dad died about 10 years ago of cancer. He was 67, an avid weightlifter and former athlete(football, baseball). He always had huge, toned arms and legs. The last month before death took a toll on him. He had shrunk from a 5'10 220 chiseled cinder block to about 170. The family looked at him in the casket then closed it. That did not look like him at all. I hate open caskets. Creepy.