Funeral games

As a postscript to the ash-scattering, I was fascinated to find this post of Mary Beard's from her Don's Life blog,  Do-it-yourself cremation, about both Cambridge crematorium and home-made ceremonies, such as we conducted last October.
I remember being fascinated by reading, as an eight year old boy, of the funeral games in Homer and Virgil. We had no such games for my mother, but there was last Saturday's triumphant Boat Race and this Saturday is Grand National day, two events she enjoyed.