I (American) attended an Indian funeral in London, so I don’t know if this is an Indian or English custom— or both — but the pallbearers carried the casket on their shoulders. I’m trying to visualize the giants it would take to carry Frank that way.
After a particularly bad fall from a bike, I was given a tee shirt by the president of our bike club, who ran a print shop. It read G A R D — Gravity-Assisted Rapid Dismount.
Many years ago, I worked in newspapers that still had Linotype machines … and I spent my college years in Carbondale (Illinois).