10 Weirdest Things People Do With Their Dead

Funerals tend to be quiet, dignified affairs, with rows of sombre people paying their last respects ... unless you live in some parts of South East Asia. In many places dotted throughout rural China and Taiwan, funerals are status symbols and the amount of people in attendance directly correlates to how much honour the deceased has.

Because of this, families sometimes put on some kind of spectacle in order to pull a crowd and bump the honour levels of the dead man, and sometimes these can get pretty weird and pretty huge. Far from the quiet sadness that surrounds a lot of British funerals, these are great carnivalistic celebrations of the life of the person.

Some have even been known to hire strippers to dance at the service and give the old boy a proper send off, as well as pulling in the numbers. In recent years, Chinese government officials have tried to crack down on this particular custom due to the media attention that it attracts (suppose that means that we're not helping matters).