Z94 - The Rock Station » funerals

Your Funeral Won't Be So Depressing If You Hire People to Attend It

Drew Weisholtz — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:53:27 +0000

Would you bring a ringer in to your funeral? Because it might become a thing. A British company called Rent a Mourner does exactly what you think it does: it rents out people to show up to funerals so the deceased can have a proper memorial. The cost? About $68 per person. The company promises [...]

Man's Funeral Procession Stops At Fast Food Drive-Thru

Joe Student — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:39:21 +0000

A recently deceased Pennsylvania man went to a fast food restaurant so often that his daughter arranged for his funeral procession stopped by the drive-thru on the way to his burial. This is why you should be nice to your family: when you are dead, they're in charge.

David Kime Jr., 88, of

Taiwan Gets it Right with Funeral Strippers

Cameron Simcik — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:00:01 +0000

Funerals suck. We don’t like to get into that sappy crap. Unless of course said funeral involves half-naked women, because half-naked women make any situation a thousand times better. Well folks, our twisted dreams have come true. Over in Taiwan, they have this whole honoring the dead thing down pat. Basically, the Taiwanese have funeral [...]

People are Live Streaming Funerals Now

Kathy Landin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:02 +0000

These days people are live streaming just about every event. Funerals might be next. There is a crematorium in the UK that believes they should. They feel that it is important for people to have a chance to mourn the deceased even if they can’t make it to the funeral. Counselor Jeff Sumner, a spokesman [...]