I’ve never understood why funerals need be such glum affairs. Personally, I want to be cremated and have my ashes sent evenly to medical colleges across the country. I also want a dub step contest.

But my sense of mirth pales in comparison to Shay Bradley, an Irish Defense Force veteran who passed into the great beyond with perhaps the greatest practical joke in funereal history. I doff my plague mask to you, sir.