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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Karl has never even attended a funeral, let alone given much thought to death – although he complains that dead people take up too much land and always get all the nice, quiet areas, while the living have to live in crowded, noisy places – so he sets out to see how other cultures handle death in the hope that it can help him prepare for the end of life. Finding the theme of British funerals depressing, he makes his first stop in Accra, Ghana, to look for more festive funeral customs. He shops for a "crazy coffin" – a coffin custom-made in any shape the buyer wants – and discusses crazy coffins with a man shopping for a coffin for his father and who says that people often choose a coffin based on the deceaseds profession . Karl gives an open Twix wrapper that had contained two Twix bars to the coffin-maker and orders a Twix-shaped coffin that can accommodate two people for himself and his girlfriend Suzanne. He next helps a mortician prepare the body of a 79-year-old woman named Madam Comfort Asaaba Cofie, who had died a month earlier, for her funeral. He applies make-up to her and helps to twist her body to overcome rigor mortis so that they can sit her up during her wake so that she appears to be selling things from a market stall, as she did in life. Upset with the process at first, he attends the wake and is pleased with the results. The next day, he dances and plays a noisemaker as part of a performing group that marches in a carnival-like atmosphere as her funeral parade makes its way through the town to the cemetery, where he attends a funeral for the first time in his life. He finds that he has enjoyed the day and thinks that Comfort had a good send-off. Unable to cry when sad, he flies to Taipei, Taiwan, where a professional mourner, who can be hired to cry at memorial services, teaches him how to cry and deal with grief. She has him learn to sob while talking about the deceased; advises him that it is unacceptable to follow his normal practice of swearing rather than crying when upset; and teaches him to stagger and crawl while grieving. He pretends to be mourning Suzannes death, but suddenly interrupts his moving performance when he thinks he has put his hand in dog feces. His lesson complete, he attends a memorial service with the mourner to see her at work; her act bewilders him, as does his discovery that the family has hired a pole dancer to perform outside to attract more people to the service. He next goes to the Philippines, where he visits Manilas biggest cemetery, a place where people live and work among the dead in what amounts to a small town. He inspects their accommodations, which he finds reasonable. Demand for space in the cemetery requires the removal of bodies, and he assists in the exhumation of the body of woman who had been buried there for five years, and is amazed to see she was buried wearing a brassiere. His next stop is Sagada, a community in the mountains north of Manila where people bury their dead in exposed coffins hung on the side of a cliff so that dogs cannot open the coffins and consume the bodies. He likes the concept of cliff burials because it does not waste land on the dead, but finds it to be hard work as he assists in carrying a coffin to the burial cliff and hoisting it up to its position. He ends his exploration of death back in England, where at his home in Swanley he has taken delivery of the two-person, Twix-wrapper-shaped crazy coffin he ordered in Ghana. He must keep it in a storage unit because Suzanne does not want it in their house, but he thinks that a two-person Twix coffin will fascinate future archeologists. He then drives to Hastings to demonstrate his idea for a useful memorial for the dead along the boardwalk at the beach there. Inspired by benches dedicated to the memory of the deceased, which provide people with a place to sit, he notes that there are never enough litter bins at the beach and points out a memorial litter bin he has purchased in memory of Comfort, complete with a memorial plaque for her. He thinks the idea of memorial litter bins will catch on, and, after eating an ice cream bar, discards the wrapper in Comforts memorial bin.. }

• The_Moaning_of_Life shortsummary "Karl has never even attended a funeral, let alone given much thought to death – although he complains that dead people take up too much land and always get all the nice, quiet areas, while the living have to live in crowded, noisy places – so he sets out to see how other cultures handle death in the hope that it can help him prepare for the end of life. Finding the theme of British funerals depressing, he makes his first stop in Accra, Ghana, to look for more festive funeral customs. He shops for a "crazy coffin" – a coffin custom-made in any shape the buyer wants – and discusses crazy coffins with a man shopping for a coffin for his father and who says that people often choose a coffin based on the deceaseds profession . Karl gives an open Twix wrapper that had contained two Twix bars to the coffin-maker and orders a Twix-shaped coffin that can accommodate two people for himself and his girlfriend Suzanne. He next helps a mortician prepare the body of a 79-year-old woman named Madam Comfort Asaaba Cofie, who had died a month earlier, for her funeral. He applies make-up to her and helps to twist her body to overcome rigor mortis so that they can sit her up during her wake so that she appears to be selling things from a market stall, as she did in life. Upset with the process at first, he attends the wake and is pleased with the results. The next day, he dances and plays a noisemaker as part of a performing group that marches in a carnival-like atmosphere as her funeral parade makes its way through the town to the cemetery, where he attends a funeral for the first time in his life. He finds that he has enjoyed the day and thinks that Comfort had a good send-off. Unable to cry when sad, he flies to Taipei, Taiwan, where a professional mourner, who can be hired to cry at memorial services, teaches him how to cry and deal with grief. She has him learn to sob while talking about the deceased; advises him that it is unacceptable to follow his normal practice of swearing rather than crying when upset; and teaches him to stagger and crawl while grieving. He pretends to be mourning Suzannes death, but suddenly interrupts his moving performance when he thinks he has put his hand in dog feces. His lesson complete, he attends a memorial service with the mourner to see her at work; her act bewilders him, as does his discovery that the family has hired a pole dancer to perform outside to attract more people to the service. He next goes to the Philippines, where he visits Manilas biggest cemetery, a place where people live and work among the dead in what amounts to a small town. He inspects their accommodations, which he finds reasonable. Demand for space in the cemetery requires the removal of bodies, and he assists in the exhumation of the body of woman who had been buried there for five years, and is amazed to see she was buried wearing a brassiere. His next stop is Sagada, a community in the mountains north of Manila where people bury their dead in exposed coffins hung on the side of a cliff so that dogs cannot open the coffins and consume the bodies. He likes the concept of cliff burials because it does not waste land on the dead, but finds it to be hard work as he assists in carrying a coffin to the burial cliff and hoisting it up to its position. He ends his exploration of death back in England, where at his home in Swanley he has taken delivery of the two-person, Twix-wrapper-shaped crazy coffin he ordered in Ghana. He must keep it in a storage unit because Suzanne does not want it in their house, but he thinks that a two-person Twix coffin will fascinate future archeologists. He then drives to Hastings to demonstrate his idea for a useful memorial for the dead along the boardwalk at the beach there. Inspired by benches dedicated to the memory of the deceased, which provide people with a place to sit, he notes that there are never enough litter bins at the beach and points out a memorial litter bin he has purchased in memory of Comfort, complete with a memorial plaque for her. He thinks the idea of memorial litter bins will catch on, and, after eating an ice cream bar, discards the wrapper in Comforts memorial bin.".