The hunter's funeral seems to be used to minimise the chances of someone coming back, not eliminate it, obviously. Since we've seen it flouted many a time. It seems is there would be a choice between the ghost being tied to their body or a thing, they take a thing--I'm trying to remember if there were precisely experiences where a) there were remains that the boys find and b) they destroy the remains and c) the spirit turns out to have been attached to something inanimate the whole time.
I can think of situations in which they burnt the wrong person's stuff--what about the right person?
Could a ghost jump? Or be attached to a bunch of stuff, so you have to get it all?
But, Bobby got the fire, he came back/didn't go.
Sampa must have had a hunter's funeral. I like to imagine that Mary called in her hunting relatives and helped do them right by the community. Which is confusing me more about what got brought back. I would have thought he'd be burnt and in heaven and he's back not even just a spirit, but reasonably well integrating into the world.
Did the rest of Campbells not do any tests? I mean, he was going to pass them, but one thing for sure -- this isn't a "I ran to the nearest crossroad with blood on my hands to get him back before he was even cooling". It's been FOREVER. I might have refused to hunt with him on principle, because it just can't be good. Maybe that happened. Maybe those people are still alive. So there are really far away Campbell relatives.
Now I'm imaging John trying to take care of her parents' bodies in the way he knows how, but she's insisting on very careful cremation, and he thinks it's weird. Maybe she's so distraught and ready to move on past hunting, especially after the demon thing that she purposely casts it away and they are only buried nornally. She's going to shut the (coffin) lib on them, and then she's done. No more salting, no charms, nope.
DONE. That would can go fuck iitself. She's going to focus on her new job (I don't know what it is, but bear with me she gets a new one) and her husband, and their first house, and just move on past that ship.
John wonders what that tattoo was and she brushes it off as having been a wild child teen ("With Samuel Campbell in the house!??!?") and now she's settling down. She's still a little wilder than him anyway.
It appears I just got a lotta pre-series feels.