I think there is an interesting aspect of this - how society treats death, what is philosophy of death in that society, etc.

Colleague's grandpa passed away in Scandinavia. As it was summertime, all the extended family is on vacation, abroad and etc. they put the body in the freezer and schedule funeral at some time when everybody's back.

On the other hand I have read about Japanese (might be any other Far East country) culture where passing away of father requires something like a year of mourning. Culture doesn't allow you to go to work for a year as you would look insensitive. However not showing up at work for a year is also a big nono. So it becomes a huge strain on all the family.

And we can imagine how these two cultures can have very different approaches to crisis like that, crisis itself is of a very different scope because of culture.