Legendary barman Michael Wojas met his maker in a cardboard coffin lined with cigarettes made by one of Britain's edgiest artists, while unabashed Soho dilettante Sebastian Horsley was sent off this week in a casket dressed up as a giant present.
A picture of Whitney Houston's body lying in the casket wound up making it onto the cover of a supermarket tabloid after the singer died.
And in death, with caskets lined up side by side, three of the four St. Vincents Hospital nurses who died in a freak car accident were honored together.
But a second later, she turned to the casket, whispering, "Wake up, Ray-Ray.
That was the theme in Karbala, too, where hundreds of mourners shouted "God is Great!" as the casket was lifted up off the truck garlanded with strings of pink and yellow plastic flowers.
The casket was carried up the west front steps of the Capitol, mainly because Reagan was first inaugurated there and he wanted to face west, toward California.
Before the funeral, the flower-covered caskets were lined up in the sports centre to allow mourners to say farewell.
The caskets were lined up under the gym's basketball net, below a huge screen that flashed images of the victims whose stories are told in this interactive.
Whether or not Drake himself – hell, be that Nathan or Sam, or both – ends up casket-bound come the end of Uncharted 4 remains to be seen.
With dusk settling on the green swells and white tablets of Arlington, and insects clicking in the trees, the joint casket team carried the coffin up the thick grass to a grave dug early Saturday morning, 80 inches long and 32 inches wide.
