21.   Currently, the state funeral board oversees crematories that are open to public, not those that cater to funeral homes, Neal said.

22.   Dissanayake will be given a state funeral on Saturday.

23.   Friends said that Mitterrand did not want a state funeral, but Chirac declared Thursday a day of national mourning and ordered flags be flown at half-staff.

24.   Had the services been deemed a state funeral, Clinton would likely have been invited and attended.

25.   He is to receive a state funeral in Budapest in recognition to his having stood up to both Nazis and Communists in power.

26.   He received a state funeral in Addis.

27.   He received what was close to a state funeral, with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and President Chaim Herzog in attendance.

28.   He left Russians expecting a state funeral.

29.   He was beginning to attend political fundraisers around the country and seemed to be in line for the usual vice presidential role of attending state funerals around the world.

30.   He was not officially invited by the families because it will not be a state funeral.