I take another point of view.
I don’t want a funeral at all. The best thing that could happen when I die is that a bunch of people to to a forest (I really like trees and forests), and they run around and maybe someone tells some jokes.]
I have no desire for anyone of the clergy to say anything at all – I’m non-religious. I would rather have the people tell happy stories about their lives.
Funerals are about the past, and once I am dead, the past is meaningless. I’d rather have people enjoy the “now” and think about the future.
And as for texting—hey, when I am alive people text when I am talking to them. Far be it from me to force my rules on them after I am dead.
Traditional funerals are so, well, morbid.