[fidelis]

"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
~ Mercurtio

[catbertz]

ouch. I’ve had a slight fear of that during several funerals.

[Fido969]

[Jamestown1630]

What a disaster. The one who wound up underneath the casket must have been hurt badly.

[Seruzawa]

Sounds like a typical Irish wake to me. Though the participants usually manage to fall into the grave on their own.

[chajin]

Ancient Japanese poem, and by ancient I mean about 1000 years old.

“I may live on until
I long for this time
In which I am so unhappy,
And remember it fondly.”

Today, it seems like a horrible tragedy. Ten years from now, the participants might be able to laugh about it.

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[Magnum44]

Anything can happen at a funeral...

[Dr. Franklin]

The pallbearers didn’t know they were in grave danger.

[vetvetdoug]

I was on a detachment for the USAF Honor Guard at a funeral in New Orleans. I was at the head of the casket and as we began to lower the casket onto the carriage the ground beneath me gave way..Luckily I was the only one that went into the hole. The OIC came over and gave me a hand to get out, I retook my position with better ground and we finished the honors and funeral. My uniform was trashed though. I thought we handled the situation well..no one cussed, no one showed surprise, and no damage except the jokes that were given to me on the bus on the way back to Keesler. The crowd was at first aghast but when they saw how we handled the situation everyone went on with the respect and honor for the deceased.

[frank ballenger]

In India the role in society of women of lost their husbands was so bleak and hopeless that many threw themselves onto their dead husbands’ funeral pyres.

“Sati or suttee is a practice, a chiefly historical one, in which a Hindu widow burns alive on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre, the death by burning entered into voluntarily, by coercion, or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live.”

I doubt the Philadelphia mourners felt like that.

[bankwalker]

[OldHarbor]

Aviles' son was among the pallbearers and was knocked out following the incident.

"The casket lay on top of him, and he was out like a light with his face in the mud,"

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave

[Lurker]

This is why I insist on a Viking funeral.

L

[frank ballenger]

In the Roger Corman horror film Tales of Terror (1962) with Peter Lorre, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone, two crooked undertakers save money by secretly dumping the each of the corpses in a pit in the woods and then re-using the casket for the next funeral’s deceased.

They would be very upset about the splintered boards described.

Unusual astrological fact. These are all Geminis: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Donald Trump and myself. Used to getting our way.

[MeanWestTexan]

The deceased let his friends and family down one last time.

[I want the USA back]

They can say that they had one foot in the grave.

[sit-rep]

just damn!!...

[Pollard]

Four out of the six were large guys. Couple of them really big

[Vendome]

To be fair, they were carrying a lot of dead weight

Still. I’m apall’ed

[tumblindice]

There was a young fellow named Hall
Who fell in the spring in the fall.
‘Twould have been a sad thing
Had he died in the spring,
But he didn’t, he died in the fall.