![]() ![]() “It all felt a little empty,” Meyer writes. On the guest list: royalty and rockers, socialites and designers. His family buried him in his favourite things: a Snoopy T-shirt and bright green sneakers, a bottle of absinthe in his hand. ![]() There was the room she converted into a replica of Bungalow 8, replete with palm trees and a DJ, so mourners could properly send off an infamous party boy. In her new memoir, Good Mourning, Meyer writes about the strangest services and corpses she pulled together - and things at Campbell, or “Crawford,” as it’s called in the book, aren’t as chic as you might think. There’s no right or wrong - it’s what you want to spend.” “But we had some six-figure funerals as well. “High-five figure services were regular,” says Elizabeth Meyer, a 30-year-old socialite who spent five years working at Campbell. Instead, she was removed from her Fifth Avenue apartment building in a casket. ![]() Jackie O, for example, was embalmed in her apartment so that the press wouldn’t get a photo of her in a body bag. ![]() Campbell, the illustrious funeral home that has waked everyone from Rudolph Valentino to Biggie Smalls, John Lennon to Joan Rivers, Walter Cronkite to Heath Ledger.Īt Campbell, confidentiality is key, and even in death - that great equaliser - celebrities are supposed to go out with more elegance and style than the rest of us. IT’S the place New York City’s elite are dying to get into: Frank E. ![]()
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