Day 9- Genesis 23-24

Genesis 23:  So, I get very little from this, but the commentator, Matthew Henry, points out that much of the idea of this is that Abraham had to be careful to mourn, but not too much and that burial is a sort of distraction from mourning that is necessary and finding the right location for burial is important.  He also points out that no one is full of so much grace that they can be excepted from death.

Genesis 24:  Here's Matthew Henry's point on 23 and 24 together and in this order.

Marriages and funerals are the changes of families, and the common news among the inhabitants of the villages. In the foregoing chapter we had Abraham burying his wife, here we have him marrying his son. These stories concerning his family, with their minute circumstances, are largely related, while the histories of the kingdoms of the world then in being, with their revolutions, are buried in silence; for the Lord knows those that are his. The subjoining of Isaac’s marriage to Sarah’s funeral (with a particular reference to it, v. 67) shows us that as "one generation passes away another generation comes;’’ and thus the entail both of the human nature, and of the covenant, is preserved. 

So, I guess the point of these is that these rituals occur in the lives of everyone and in due time and place.  We are directed to manage them in accordance with the laws of man, but more so, God's directions, as he will guide us through this.