Why are there no humanist funerals?

Peter Berger

Yes, of course a religious community can offer comfort of the same kind as any other community. But religion offers something much more central than community in the abstract: It offers a community gathered around the message that death is not the final word about an individual life and nothingness not the final destiny of the universe.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/berger/2013/01/10/why-are-there-no-humanist-funerals/