Funeral Facts

Some Taiwanese funerals feature exotic dancers performing on electric flower cars to attract crowds and give the deceased 'one last hurrah.'

Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.

Harold Jellicoe Percival died alone at 99 with no family to attend his funeral. The care home placed a four-line notice in the Lytham St Annes Express asking anyone to come. Someone tweeted a photo of it. On Armistice Day at 11am, over 200 strangers packed the crematorium and scores more stood outside in the rain.