The very beautiful legendary Hollywood actress - Elizabeth Taylor left her last instructions that she wanted to be late for her funeral as her publicist announced. It was her parting wish that her funeral should start late and that is exactly how it all happened.
She died of a congestive heart failure on Wednesday and her four children were there with her at the time of her death. She was hospitalized at Los Angeles' Cedars Medical Center for about six weeks.
Elizabeth Taylor was buried at a family funeral in a California cemetery, which is the final resting place of many Hollywood celebrities including Elizabeth's good friend Michael Jackson.
Her funeral was attended by 50 family members. The funeral service began 15 minutes after the announced starting time and went on for one hour. Colin Farrell started the service by reading poetry and her grandson Morrison gave a trumpet performance.
Elizabeth Taylor got married eight times to seven husbands. She converted to Judaism before her wedding to Eddie Fisher in 1959. She had won three Academy Awards, one of them for her humanitarian work. She openly supported AIDS research when HIV was a very new thing in the world.
She went through 20 surgeries and operations in her life. In 1983, she admitted she had an addiction for sleeping pills and pain killers. She underwent treatment for her alcohol and drug abuse. In 1994-1995 she had to replace both her hip joints. In 1997, she got a surgery for her brain tumor.
The world lost a good person, a rare beauty and a great humanitarian worker with the death of Elizabeth Taylor. She always mentioned about her sad childhood - in fact she openly said she never really had a childhood because she was forced to work and earn money. This was one of the reasons why she was such a good friend of Michael Jackson, who suffered from an unhealthy childhood himself. Her last instructions were followed and she arrived late at her funeral just as she wished.
