No, but my OLDER uncle went down with a razor blade inserted in his shoe the next day.
THAT guy was "lucky".
The OTHERS got a visit from some old ITALIAN family friends.
My Mom used to work [10 years old] for a "rich" family down the block who ALWAYS seemed to have enough, even in the depression. Nobody ASKED. One time [this was before air conditioning] she was paid to wave a fan [like cleopatra] over a body at a wake.....got to take the scraps home.
Italians had GREAT wakes.
TRUE stories.
Sounds like Polish-good, Italian-bad, huh?
But I bet you don't have any bias or anything like that...