I feel that it does help at a funeral or whenever to think of someone being reunited with a much loved partner, or whoever, and to be able to picture them being reunited. After my mother died, my father was SO bereft, like a ship that had lost it's anchor, (my mother would have been the same the other way round,) and when he died some 8 months later, I did feel that they were reunited somewhere and at peace together. I had worried so much during those 8 months (my parents were buried) that my poor mother was so cold and lonely in that grave, that I simply had to visit her as often as I could, (daft I know!!) Once my father was buried with her, (they had a double grave) I felt that they were together and content. I don't visit their grave very often any more, but they have each other, and don't need me.