 They may have been hired, maybe not. It was a culture thing for them. See, it was unseemly and sometimes impossible for the family to cry. And so they would hire people. And the more people you have hired, the louder the noise is, the more important the person was, see? So these could have been professional criers. They could have just been neighbors who knew what you were supposed to do with the death of someone. That's why they can go from crying to laughing so quickly.