<<Yes, AND [a funeral is] a manner of MOURNING for the loss of a life.>>
Everyone who loses a life mourns for it. Funerals are ritual FAREWELLS to the departed, not ritualized mourning. The mourning goes on with or without the funeral. It's something that is felt. Friends and family console. But the funeral itself is a farewell to the departed. They don't all cry together, they talk about the life of the deceased ("He had a great second trimester!! His nasal cavities were fully delineated!") and remember him or her fondly ("Remember when he said "[stethoscope recordings are played here]")
I mean, holy fucking shit, how bizarre do you want to make it? The ritual is NOT an aspect of the mourning for any normal, sane, healthy individual. You want to keep defending these fucking weirdos, you can do it all day and all night but at the end they come out just as fucking weird as when they went in. Repetition doesn't make it more normal. They mourn, of course, but they don't need a funeral to mourn. Nobody I ever heard of needed a funeral to mourn. They mourn, they get over it, they get on with their lives. Do you think your friends were the first people on earth to have a miscarriage? Get a fuckin' grip.
Why don't you and your wacko friends mourn for the 150,000 Iraqis blown to smithereens by U.S. shot and shell in the insane quest for oil? Those were REAL HUMAN BEINGS whose lives were deliberately sacrificed in a war that no one needed to have begun (oh, yeah, I know, the geniuses were "misled" by "all the intel on earth from all the intel agencies on earth") only it was all "one big unavoidable mistake." Well how about a little mourning for the victims of that "one big unavoidable mistake?" instead of phony funerals for fetuses? You guys are so fucking deranged and so totally devoid of any real human values that I sometimes question what is the point of even trying to get through to you.