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No sacred cows

A very British response to a death at a funeral

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

Something very odd occurred at a funeral I attended last week — somebody died. I don’t mean the person who was being buried. They had died a few days earlier, obviously. I mean one of the mourners passed away during the service. That was shocking in its own right, but what made it surreal is that the other mourners carried on as if nothing had happened.

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