Oops - I was thinking of Scrooged, where he thinks he's at his brother's cremation but it's his own, actually, staged by the Ghost of Christmas Future. Not Groundhg Day.

And yes, other peoples, other cultures, definitely. We don't do funerals in my family, we do memorial services, Dad has no grave or marker unless you count his name on the State Department wall with other civilians dead in the line of government duty, and when Uncle Greg accidentally sold his car with his father, my grandfather's, ashes still in the back, and the guy who bought it was from Minnesota and thought the ashes were there on purpose to help get traction in the snow, so he used them to get out of a snowdrift or something, we all - even Uncle Greg - thought it was funny. We still do, actually. I guess the worst dead person story in the family was the poor old aunt who was very old, and had been visiting Paris and was on her way back to Budapest, and died in the transit lounge - so she was OUT of France but they wouldn't put a corpse on the plane - she was legally on nobody's soil, and there was an AMAZING amount of difficulty because France couldn't let a corpse back into the country either. I think it took over a day to resolve, while the dead lady just stayed in a chair to the side with a sheet over her so nobody would notice or something. We still think this one is funny too... and thought so at the time. After all, SHE didn't care, she was dead. Plus she would have found it terribly funny herself, I think!