'I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents': Joan Rivers wanted her funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, camera, action

Comedian Joan Rivers died at 81 after suffering cardiac arrest during a medical procedure and the funeral for Rivers will be at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. But the comedian had already made her funeral wish when she was alive.

She had dedicated an entire chapter of her 2012 book, 'I Hate Everyone... Starting With Me', to death and funerals.

Joan had mentioned that she would want her funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action. And not just that, she wanted to wear a Valentino gown and a wind machine so that even in the casket her hair would blow like Beyonce's.

Here's the complete quote from her book:

"When I die, I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action...I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don't want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. I don't want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing "Mr. Lonely." I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyonce's".