WORLD FAMOUS AND THEIR WEIRD BURIAL ATTITUDES

Shah Khan Jahan
This 13th-century Mogul emperor was buried with his hand out of the
tomb so that visitors could shake it.

Charles I
Ben Jonson asked Charles for a square foot in Westminster Abbey after his death. The King took him literally and buried him in an upright position.

Sir Thomas Barrett-Leonard
This Essex squire gave his pet full scale funerals. He led the corteges dressed in a long white robe and read prayers as their coffins were lowered into their graves.

Harry Bagshaw
In 1927, this Derbyshire cricketer was buried in his umpire's coat, and with a cricket ball in his hand.

Mike Meaney
For an endurance test, this Irish man allowed himself to be buried alive in a closed casket under a pub in London in 1968 for 61 days.

Lionel Barrymore
As his exhibitionistic father, Maurice, an actor, was being buried, the coffin chord became snagged as it was going into the ground and the coffin had to be raised again to free it. "How like father", Lionel remarked drily, " a curtain call"

Aimee McPherson
Daughter of a Methodist Father and Salvation Army mother who made the world her stage both in life and beyond it. Her first ambition was to be an actress but when this shocked her parents, she opted to become an evangelist instead, exchanging the stage for pulpit. She insisted on being buried with a phone in her coffin so that she could send messages back from "the other side". After seven years of silence, however, it was disconnected.