Funeral. While the dead may not care, funerals are important for those grieving. It's a way to share sorrow, and to potentially strengthen bonds between remaining family and friends.
A gender reveal party strikes me as meaningless. Yeah, parties themselves can be fun in a general sense, these strike me as a way to weasel another baby shower out of people.
Aside: formal ettiquette rules make 0 sense because culture is always changing. Moreover, I don't find rigid rules of propriety to be significantly different than the arbitrary rules and restrictions of a religion. It's just another way to control the actions of another for some other purpose.
A gender reveal party strikes me as meaningless. Yeah, parties themselves can be fun in a general sense, these strike me as a way to weasel another baby shower out of people.
Aside: formal ettiquette rules make 0 sense because culture is always changing. Moreover, I don't find rigid rules of propriety to be significantly different than the arbitrary rules and restrictions of a religion. It's just another way to control the actions of another for some other purpose.
