“Funerals...are for the living.”
“Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
“Live your life in such a way that the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral.”
“Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen”
“Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.”
“Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.”