Headline: Man Attends Own Funeral

Reaction: so? I know it won’t be up to me, really, but I do plan on attending mine.

Oh. That’s not what they meant:

On November 1, some family members and friends had identified the victim of a car crash as the 59-year-old (Ademir Jorge) Goncalves.

They scheduled his funeral for the following day, Dia de Finados, a holiday when Brazilians remember loved ones who have died.

What Goncalves’ family did not know is that he had spent the night drinking at a bar near the site of the crash, but he was not the victim.

When the bricklayer got word of his funeral, he showed up at the Funeraria Rainha das Colinas funeral home Monday morning.

Later that day, the mystery was solved when a family in a neighboring town came inquiring about a son who was missing.

When it’s my time, I’m seeing my funeral through to the end.