Bas Baisus decided to try to find food herself. When he would eat, one could see, from the outside, the food passing to his stomach. When he stopped fasting, he would suck the juice of figs, and discard the figs. R. Yochanan Ben Zakai asked him to secretly come to see him. Only let your Talmidim carry the coffin, for whoever carries it will know that you are alive.
People know that a corpse is heavier than a living person.
Let us jolt the coffin. The Baryonim allowed them to leave. When R. Yochanan Ben Zakai approached Aspanyainus, he said 'Shalom to the king, Shalom to the king'. I am not the king. Regarding the first point - in truth, you are the king.