Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.