Comedienne Joan Rivers had often joked about death, her own to be specific. I think that's one of the reasons why everyone liked her—nothing was off limits and she could tear into herself just as quickly as she dissected a red carpet disaster dress. She had joked about wanting a red carpet and for it to be an over the top paparazzi affair with Bobby Vinton singing at her head. She also wanted a wind machine a la Beyonce so that even in death her hair would have perfect movement. Only Melissa Rivers knows for sure which of these requests her mother was serious about but rumor has it that Joan will indeed be buried with a red carpet after her funeral later today in NYC.
Yesterday Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper officially said farewell to Joan as six pallbearers carried her body out of an Upper East Side funeral home into a waiting hearse. Melissa tearfully kissed the casket before backing away and stepping into a waiting car with her son. At that point Joan's body was transferred to a crematorium in New Jersey to be prepared for today's funeral at Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El.
The details of Joan's funeral have been kept extremely quiet with her publicist refusing to say anything more than the fact that it will be a very private event meant for those closest to the Hollywood legend. Melissa was extremely close to her mother so I have to believe that she is currently following her mothers real instructions to the letter. Joan was so in control of her life and career that she must have had precise instructions laid out for her beloved daughter to follow, don't you think? What do you think Melissa will do after regrouping from the heartbreak of burying her mother? Will she swing into action to get to the bottom of what really caused Joan Rivers death? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
