funeral, n.Trivia

Elizabeth Taylor wanted to be late for her own funeral, so the coffin arrived 15 minutes after the announced start time.

Victor Hugo's 1885 funeral drew more than two million people

Crows hold a kind of ‘funeral’.

Viking funerals consisted of the important Viking being put into a burial ship along with his clothes and jewelry and then either buried or set on fire and pushed out to sea.

Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn’t stop swearing.

Elephants have with ‘Death Rituals’, whereby the herd will gather around the dead, cover the body and mourn the death; even revisitting the bones of the dead, sometimes years after the death.

If you die in Amsterdam and have no friends or family to mourn you, a poet and a civil servant will come together to have a respectful and personal funeral for you.