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Here is a little funeral story that happened in hamburg / Germany a couple of years ago... Everytime I think of funerals and fun I have to think about it. Might be a little out of theme in this thread, but I would like to share it with you.

There was a doctor quite wealthy and also quite well known in the southern suburbs "society" who had serious quarrels with his family. On different occasions wittnesses remember him demanding a funeral without big panjandrum. Expecially he did not want his relatives to flock around in big clusters, mourn for the beloved deceased and and holding speaches about their dear family member. "And if you dare to ignore my wishes", he said, "I will come back and haunt you!"

Well, as you may have guessed, the occasion came, the funeral was held with pomp and circumstances, and of course many a crocodile's tear was squeazed by the crowd of family members gathered in the chapel. And for sure there were held many a speach about "dear cousin", "dear husband" and so on.

But what happened when they shouldered the coffin and carried him out to the graveyard? The coffin's bottom broke and the deceased fell before his terrified family's feet...