I too wonder about the lack of closure people may experience by seeing the closed coffin. However, those in charge may want people to remember him as they'd like too instead of what he might have physically become.

I'll miss him.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.