famous funerals
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Where the Famous Rest: Reflections from the Front Row of Farewell
I’ve stood in cathedrals, temples, and on city streets, notebook in hand. As a funeral director and writer, I’ve seen public grief become performance, legacy woven into ritual, and iconic lives distilled into final acts. Attending and writing about the funerals of public figures—Mayor Ed Koch, Governor Hugh Carey, Joan Rivers, Justice Antonin Scalia, Celia…