Like it or not, we will all die one day.

That said, our mortality is not something we tend to dwell on — and as for funerals, well, most people probably think about them as little as humanly possible and attend them only when they must.

A few months ago, however, I spent a day observing the postmortem industry at the Funeral Business Fair 2008 in the Pacifico Yokohama events center.