It is proper to pay tokens of respect to our deceased friends, but do not forget what JESUS hath said: Matthew 8:22.
Related Commentaries of Genesis 50:3
Genesis 50:3-5
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourneda for him threescore and ten days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.