It's the standard thing in my family - generations deep in Dublin. What differs is the body is normally in another room. Like everyone sessions in one room an

It's the standard thing in my family - generations deep in Dublin. What differs is the body is normally in another room. Like everyone sessions in one room and people go in and out to pay their last respects from time to time. I think it's good, for closure and stuff. I do think your man in the article is getting way to misty eyed and being over the top though. Probably different families do it to different extents.