Flutterby™! : Living funeral

Peter Halasz, a well-known Hungarian theater director with terminal cancer, is going to lie in state and hold his funeral while he's still alive:

"It will be informal, but we have a routine - we have the form, the ritual, with funerals," Halasz said.

"But it won't be religious at all."

He added that it would be his "last appearance".

"After it, in a few days or weeks, I will depart," he said.

"I am terminally ill, and by the prediction of doctors the progress [of the cancer] is quite visible. This will be my last appearance."