My gran had 3 funerals, which is good going.
She left her body to medical science, so there was quite a different order to things.

She died (gawdrester), and then we had Funeral 1. This was distinctive in that she wasn't physically present. That being the case, there was no real urgency to get moving with it - no rush to dispose of her body etc. So we were able to wait a couple of months so that far-flung relatives could make the event. It was a humanist affair, as she wasn't of the religious persuasion, and really good - just a memorial to her and a good booze up.

Funeral 2 will have taken place at whatever medical institution benefitted from her mortal remains. Once they've finished with the cadaver they have a small do where the students/researchers pay respect to the people on whose bodies they have been working, prior to their cremation.

Funeral 3 was a good couple of years after she's originally died, when her eldest daughter received her ashes back. That was a much smaller affair - just her daughters, grandkids and great grandkids. We had a good barbecue lunch together, a good few drinks, then her two sons-in-law, who's always had a challenging relationship with her over their association, took great relish in placing a large stone over her final resting place in a quiet corner of their garden.

No punchline, just a (hopefully) interesting angle on the process.

Having some extra time to deal with things in the case of Funeral 1 was a real bonus - everyone had that much longer to come to terms with things, there was no frantic rushing around, and it was a much better celebration of her life than might otherwise have been the case. She was a great great lady and is still missed to this day.

Gotta dash - something in my eye.
( barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 11 Apr 2013, 16:49, 1 reply)

They had a fourth one after the medics took her foot to a halloween party and hid it at the bottom of the punch.
Although that was more of a screaming and puking and dumping in a skip sort of affair.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 11 Apr 2013, 18:12, closed)