Everyone looks to the coffin and waits. After a few seconds, no knock comes, and the celebrant turns back to the congregtion. There's a ripple of nervous laughter. "Always a moment, that. Now let's get on with it!"
It'd be a great scene near the climax of a crime drama where the detective proves the victim was murdered the day of the funeral and has to halt some major funeral to finish collecting the evidence before the cremation.
"I think he was my father. I need a quick DNA test to prove it". *Wanders up during the hymns to the open coffin to pinch a few souvenirs and puts them into a vial*.
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*Gary from the council opens the grave...*
It'd be a great scene near the climax of a crime drama where the detective proves the victim was murdered the day of the funeral and has to halt some major funeral to finish collecting the evidence before the cremation.
,on the off chance that the rapture might happen?
“I’m not dead” says the corpse