Are you held captive...a helpless slave of your past?  Do you agonize over things in your past that you cannot change or eradicate?  I once read a chilling story about a tribe in the Far East.  When a person committed murder, the victim was tied to the back of the murderer.  He was forced to carry this body of death with him for days until the decomposing, bacteria infected corpse infected him and he died an agonizing death.
 
You can't move ahead with your past still clinging to you, you must bury him.  Until there is a burial, death is really not final.  Funerals are for the living...they allow closure and finality.  Isn't it time you stopped carrying the past around your neck...and on your mind?  Refuse to negotiate with your bitter, hurtful and painful past.  Conduct a funeral...bury the past...and do it today!