1997 : Tutu urges Mandelas to cool burial expenses . `` Rather than prolonging his suffering , the Mandela family is exploring this option as a very real probability , '' it added . Mandela 's family had considered taking him off life support , he states . Court papers filed in a dispute over burials call Mandela 's death ` ` perilous '' All of Mandela 's deceased children are reburied at his home in Qunu .
1997 : Tutu urges Mandelas to cool burial expenses . Mandela 's family had considered taking him off life support , he states . Court papers filed in a dispute over burials call Mandela 's death ` ` perilous '' All of Mandela 's deceased children are reburied at his home in Qunu .