“It’s better than fashion week!” Samantha Jones squealed outside of Lexi Featherston’s funeral in the Sex and the City episode “Splat.” Like so much of Sex and the City, the line is silly, solipsistic—and deadly accurate. For a certain type of person, an A-list funeral is worth killing—or dying—for.

As is so often the case, the wealthy do funerals if not better, than certainly more memorably. After Logan Roy’s shocking death on this week’s episode of Succession—the fictional media mogul died on his private plane during a trip to Sweden—one can only wonder how the series will send him off. (“Let’s grieve and whatever, but not do anything that restricts our freedom of movement,” Kendall Roy said shortly after learning of his father’s demise. “We’ll get a funeral off the rack; we can do Reagan’s with tweaks.”)

In that, the Roy family’s service may not be all that different from the real-life funeral of philanthropist and Manhattan society doyenne Brooke Astor. Astor, as is increasingly the case, left behind detailed instructions for her service—written in 1992 and never updated before her passing in 2007 at 105. During that time, her three suggestions to read a passage aloud had all died, and her son and grandson became embroiled in an internecine war about her care and fortune.

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