To be perfectly honest, the risk of this is precisely why we avoid attending funerals.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1911.

An Eiffel Tower of eternal regret.  From Le Charivari, 1890.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change the mood. From Le Charivari, 1890.

College funerals aren't what they used to be.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1951 yearbook.

From Satirikon, 1908.

Buried in a book.  From Satirikon, 1909.

No parking after funeral.  How many times do they have to say it?  From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1970 yearbook.

From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

The poisoned milk salesman shows his respect to the bearers of a tiny coffin.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.

Bottles of cognac and absinthe cry at the funeral of the last schnapps nose.  From Nebelspalter, 1885.

From Lustige Blätter, 1906.

We're honored by this review of our collection of 112 spooky cocktail recipes, Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead:

Here's a toast to the dead from the book.  The text reads:

This toast was passed down to us from the Omar Khayyam Society, 1921:

To those who have passed beyond the veil that hides the Infinite, and solved the last great mystery of life.  In enduring memory of these friends and comrades we annually, with humble and contrite hearts, in solemn appreciation of the glorious beauties of their lives, speak the seven hundred-year-old lament of Omar in FitzGerald’s magnificent rendering:

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup and Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.

From Le Courrier Français, 1894.

From Le Courrier Français, 1906.

The dead.  From The Golden Dawn by James Henry Potts, 1883.

"They left him alone with the dead."  From Twenty-five Ghost Stories by West Bob Holland, 1904.

From Barbarian and Noble by Marion Florence Lansing, 1911.