The buddhist took over the funeral service.

At the wake of my friend Jasmine, his buddhist friends pretty much made the funeral service into some kind of buddhist gathering.  Granting that Jasmine's partner and family allowed it, it made the funeral service into some kind of a cult gathering that is alien to at least 2/3 of the attendees.  There was chanting in the beginning for 5 minutes, then another chanting in the middle of the service for another 5 minutes and at the end another chanting for a long time.  The chanting was only significant to those buddhist friends of Jasmine.  To the rest of his family and friends who were not buddhist, it was just weird.  Jasmine's buddhist friend also had some lecture on buddhism.  It felt like they were trying to convince us to join their religion.  Perhaps they were indeed trying to recruit the non buddhist.  It made the funeral service into some buddhist service that I would never go to.  I just hope it was Jasmine's wish that she gets a buddhist funeral service.  Otherwise, those buddhist were out of line.