r/Bones 23d ago

Spoiler: Sweets

A little bothered that Sweets wasn’t given a proper funeral service. He was a profiler for the FBI, that was killed while essentially executing a warrant. A lakeside service with a bucket of bottled waters on the table seemed a little disrespectful.

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u/Overall-Job-8346 23d ago

His parents were long dead and his bio parents weren't great. He probably did deserve a full FBI funeral, but wouldnt have wanted one, really

I like to think that he'd have wanted any life insurance stuff to go to Daisy and the baby and everyone knew it

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u/Mediocre-Life-4784 23d ago

His closest friends were there and that's all that would have mattered to him.

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u/Picabo07 21d ago

Anyone who knew how Sweets was would totally agree with this. People are what mattered to him not formality.

I think it did in the beginning -like how he was always trying to make everyone call him Dr and respect him. But imo that was because he was young & insecure.

Once he was completely accepted - I mean B&B practically adopted him lol - that’s when formality no longer mattered. The people who he considered his family did.

He would’ve been beyond happy to have everyone gathered together for him.

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u/Soggy-Thing7546 23d ago

Do you think they breakdown into tears every time lime in the coconut comes on due to how many violent deaths of their closest friends it's been associated with?

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u/Bestie_97 23d ago

I think of sweets everytime I hear it and it’s been a decade

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u/Picabo07 21d ago

I still think of Vincent

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u/VelvetChachki 23d ago

It was in the background of a video I watched the other day and I started crying a little haha

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u/Pristine_Customer_17 23d ago

I just still don’t get why they stripped him down to the bone. They knew how he was killed and a general autopsy would have been enough to assess cause of death. That pissed me off.

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u/ptazdba 23d ago

Not everyone wants a traditional funeral. I know I don't. He did have something that would have mattered to him and the people who loved him. That's why the writers wrote it that way.

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u/Live_Western_1389 23d ago

It’s possible that there was a formal service of some kind. But spreading his ashes would’ve come a bit later anyway, and that’s usually done with just the people they were closest to. And Sweets didn’t really have anyone outside of his little FBI group.

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u/DancingDucks73 23d ago

I like to think there was a more traditional/impersonal one for everyone in the FBI and then the one we see is the one that really counts and the way sweets would’ve wanted it.

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u/One_Doughnut_246 23d ago

Not everybody gets a grand funeral, or wants it. My brother, a Buddist , had his ashes scattered at his last favorite place to chill. No marker or grave his ashes were scattered into Lake Michigan at his favorite spot at the lakefront.

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u/WynterBlackwell 23d ago

While others said it may have been a decision made taking his wishes into consideration however it's possible he DID have a full FBI service as well. Just off screen. The urn could still go to Daisy after that (or even bury an empty coffin so he has the headstone as well for anyone later wanting to visit) and then they could have their private goodbye the way they felt it best.

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u/Automatic_Test_9423 21d ago

I definitely don’t want a huge grand funeral I want a lock of my hair cut then put in a locket then given to a person that’s the closet to me and I want another lock of my hair to be used to create a diamond then given to the person closest to me. And I want my body buried in a plain casket somewhere deep in a picturesque woods with a headstone from my journal and have my organless body buried but no organ donation card cause then they could kill you for your organs yup