[JoeSixPack1]

Contact and ask the family directly.

[xrp]

I wouldn't go unless I had been invited. The best thing might be to send flowers and condolences to the family.

[mcg1969]

Flowers and a kind note are probably the most appropriate here.

[kdot]

It's a kind thing to do. You tried to help and the family may find comfort in your presence.

Prayers all the way around.

[eastsider]

Burying the dead is always and everywhere a work of mercy. By all means, attend the funeral.

[thackney]

my 2¢ (and worth even less) is it would be okay, although I would not approach others their to discuss your attendance or reasons.

However, be prepared for someone to ask you if you were a friend or co-worker of the deceased.

[smith288]

If I was a family member, I wouldn't care. I guess that's just me.

[stuartcr]

Was the funeral announced publicly, or in the paper? How could anyone be offended by someone paying their respects? What if you were a friend of the deceased, but no one else knew of you?

[JZoback]

Certainly attending the funeral would be appropriate. Someone in the immediate family may want to know that in their last moments on earth for the family member who died, decent people were around to try and help or comfort them.

I know I would be thankful to meet the people who tried to help.

So many people would have just looked and done nothing.

[LizardQueen]

If I were the family I'd be touched that the first responders were thinking of me. But sending a card would probably be enough. While I wouldn't object to them coming to the funeral I do think that some might find it a little odd.

LQ

[sinkspur]

Go ahead and attend, if you wish. There is no protocol for who may and may not attend a funeral.

The more people in attendance at a service, the more the family realizes how much their loved one was respected.

[TheBattman]

My personal opinion - worth exactly what you paid for it - is that going to the funeral would be fine - I just would keep a fairly low profile.

It would be one thing if you caused or were part of the actual accident, but as a "good Samaritan", you probably would be welcome.

[End Times Sentinel]

I don't see how your presence could be disturbing or disruptive in any way.  By all means, attend.  You have the right idea.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Red Badger]

Go, pay your respects, be silent. But if recognised, affirm the fact and be circumspect........

[Tacis]

It would make it much easier for the dem ambulance chasing plantiff's attorney that the family has hired to sue you and your insurance company (especially if are trained to provide emergency care/aid) to deliver papers to you. Are you in a state with a Good Samaritan Law?

[Tanniker Smith]

Go. If it turns out to be a private affair when you get there, then leave. Otherwise, pay your respects as others are doing at the church or the funeral home.

TS

[sarasmom]

Go.
You were with the person at the end, and you need closure also.

[clintonh8r]

If the arrangements are announced in the paper and no mention is made that services are private, I don't think there'd be anything wrong in going. Otherwise, flowers and a card would be OK.

[KeyWest]

We are a community of people. I see nothing wrong in attending.

I am reminded of John Donne- for whom the bell tolls...

And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.

[Izzy Dunne]

Call a press conference and announce that you are very disappointed that you have not been invited to speak the eulogy, and that you had hoped for a more bipartisan sho....

Oh, wait. You're NOT Bill Clinton, are you?