When former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died, I knew that her funeral would not be similar to that in my culture.
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On the day of the funeral, my relatives drove us out of the city in a caravan of cars, to a neighborhood of dirt roads and crumbling buildings.
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According to a recent study, the signature anthem for Australian Rules football team Collingwood is one of the most popular funeral songs in Melbourne, together with Frank Sinatra's My Way and Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World.
BBC: Catholic Church in Australia bans pop music at funerals
The 14-year-old sister of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has described her brother as "my inspiration, my hero" as she paid tribute at his funeral.
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