There a lot variation of family emergencies those probably to be used as reasons to skip work as well. As an example, attending funeral ceremony of family member, sending sick son or daughter to clinic to take treatment, house been robbed, visiting a dying elderly family member in the hospital or helping parent for a personal crisis are all pretty frequent reason to fake a work excuses. Anyway, what I can say is the successions of this excuses will depend on what company or corporation you work with.

In the business field where working parents, single mother or father are few and far between of. If you are choose to use a fake funeral pamphlet as your work excuse, just make sure it is not somebody who probably will be pass away in the future. Your employer or human resources department are unlikely to accept it as true if your mother in law passed away when you are already taken it off three times to attend her funeral ceremony

Or, just make sure you do have a copy of police report if you are going to tell your boss that your house has been robbed. Otherwise, they will never believe you anymore or for the worst, you will be out of job. Finally for this post, if you are planning to fake your excuse to skip work, make sure it foolproof. Remember, things happen and probably will be you, one  day.