One thing we all have in common: we're going to die. We won't all get married, have children or see Niagara Falls. But every single one of us will die. Yet the vast majority of us only think about death when we have to.

And what's the first thing we...

Wikipedia says a funeral is 'a ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died'. My Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning: 'pertaining to the ceremonial burial (or cremation) of the dead.'

All pretty open-ended. No mention of form, structure, funeral directors, coffins,...

Funerals. We love to spend money on them. Well, we don't love to spend money on them. But we're terrified not to. Most of us feel the amount of money we spend on a funeral correlates to a chart which measures how much we love the person who has died....