Here's how funerals are getting funnier in Ireland and around the world

While we may joke about death, funerals are generally a times of great sorrow. This is changing however, not just in Ireland but around the world, writes Margaret Carragher

Joan Rivers’ funeral

Mourners at the funeral of an elderly man in China recently got more than they bargained for when a troupe of pole-dancing strippers rolled up on the back of a neon-lit truck and proceeded to strut their stuff.

A tad unseemly in the circumstances one might think; certainly the authorities thought so, imposing a heavy fine and a 15-day jail sentence on the event organiser.