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

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

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

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.