Why "How I Met Your Mother" Finale should have included funeral scene

According to Alyson Hannigan, the series finale of How I Met Your Mother could have been a lot more gut-wrenching.

A scene showing Tracy's funeral that was included in the script was cut because the creators thought it would hit the viewers, and us fans, way too hard.

But even if this scene had been gut-wrenching, I believe Carter Bays and Craig Thomas made a terrible mistake by not including it in the finale.

For starters, I believe it would have helped many fans be ok with Ted ending up with Robin. While I was satisfied with how the series turned out, I feel that the last five minutes were too rushed from Ted meeting Tracy to Ted wanting to date Robin again. It isn't until Penny says "Come on Dad, Mom's been gone for six years now, it's time" that the viewer knows for certain that the mother is dead and that she has been dead for six years. Before she says this, it's easy to assume that Tracy could be dying in a hospital or that she just recently passed away. Showing Tracy's funeral and her tombstone would have shown viewers that Ted had been a widowed father for six years before it cut back to him finishing telling the story to his kids.

Unfortunately, this scene wasn't shot, so we won't get a chance to view it on the season nine DVD. Which is a shame, because it's a scene that might have given fans a lot more closure.