Funeral | Top 10 Shocking Cases of People Who Attended Their Own Funeral

Funeral | Top 10 Shocking Cases of People Who Attended Their Own Funeral
Funerals give us the chance to grieve the death of our loved ones and are often fraught with tense emotions. Given the high tensions and sometimes shocking revelations that can occur at these gatherings, it might be considered something of a blessing in disguise that we are present (usually) in body only.
Unsurprisingly, few people live to see their own funeral; most are long dead before the ceremony begins. However, the following people each managed to witness their own life’s memorial—either by choice or by bizarre chance.
Timothy Dexter
Eccentric 18th-century millionaire Timothy Dexter wanted to know what people thought about him. He decided to hold a mock funeral, hide, and see how his death affected the guests.[1] Dexter sent out a notice, which claimed he had died, and his family invited people to his funeral.
Gilberto Araujo
In 2012, Jose Marcos received a phone call from the police. They told him his brother, Gilberto Araujo, had been killed, and his body was in the morgue. Marcos had to go to the police station and identify his brother’s body. He confirmed that the dead man was Araujo.
Araujo’s family planned a funeral for the dead man. As the mourners gathered to grieve around the casket, Araujo showed up at the front door. His appearance terrified the guests: Some people fainted and others fled in panic. A friend told Araujo that his body was in the nearby coffin. Araujo assured his loved ones that he was alive, and he offered to let them pinch him to prove it.[2]
Felix ‘Bush’ Breazeale
Felix Breazeale spent five years planning his own funeral. As he’d never married or had many friends, Breazeale was eager to hear what the preacher had to say about him. His bizarre funeral in 1938 gained national attention, and 8,000 people attended. Vendors sold soft drinks and hot dogs, and the spectacle had a carnival-like atmosphere.[3]
Kong Channeang
Kong Channeang suffered from a mental illness. During the day, his family left him chained in their home—a common practice in Cambodia.[4] However, one day in 2014, he managed to slip out of the chains. His family searched for him, but they could not find him.
Zeng Jia
In 2013, after attending her grandfather’s funeral, Zeng Jia decided to have a funeral of her own. Zeng scheduled a ceremony at a funeral home and invited her friends and family. She bought flowers, rented a coffin, and hired a photographer. She even hired makeup artists to make her look like a corpse. Then she lay in a coffin while holding her favorite Hello Kitty doll.
Frederick Ward
Frederick Ward, aka Captain Thunderbolt, a 19th-century outlaw, was called the “gentleman bushranger.” He never used violence, and he was always polite to his victims. Ward spent six years stealing from properties and holding up mail coaches. He gave away a lot of the money that he stole.
Zhang Deyang
Zhang Deyang never married or had children, and he worried about his afterlife. In Chinese culture, the dead are believed to have the same needs as the living.[7] Families are expected to arrange for the funerals and pay regular visits to the deceased’s grave. Zhang worried that no one would take care of him after he died.
Dragan And Dragica Maric
Dragan and Dragica Maric arranged their premature funeral in 2016. The couple had no children, and they wanted to organize a proper funeral for themselves before they died.[8] The Marics did not want anyone to have to pay for a funeral for them.
Ademir Jorge Goncalves
Several of Ademir Goncalves’s relatives identified him as the victim of a car crash in 2009. The corpse was badly disfigured, but its clothing was similar to what Goncalves had been wearing. His family began preparing the funeral, which was to take place the next day.
Noela Rukundo
Australian Noela Rukundo traveled back to her home country, Burundi, to attend her stepmother’s funeral. She returned to her hotel room early and dozed off. She was awakened by a call from her husband, Balenga Kalala. Rukundo said that she wasn’t feeling well, and he told her to go outside and get some fresh air.
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