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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.

A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.

One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.