“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”

“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”

“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much depend on the weather.”

“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

“No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.”

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.We lived and died together.All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.”