Shooting Victim Honored At Wake With Games, Snacks, Jersey And Body Propped In Chair (pic Included)

Covagirlm said:

How does he look 40?

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I actually think they did a real good job on him. I've been to way too many funerals and often times, after embalming, the body takes on a claymation type of look. The poor victim literally looks like he's just chillin'; he doesn't look stiff at all...

OMG I remember that it freaked me out severely. I had nightmares about that.

Crackers Phinn said:

I was trying to look up this ancient art of propping up dead bodies as funeral rites and managed to miss the ancient Egyptians but I did come across this gem.

New Orleans, which has long boasted of its ability to put the “fun” in funeral, seems like the place where this kind of thing would catch on, and Mr. Charbonnet boasts that his 132-year-old funeral home is well known for its funeral parades.
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The phenomenon first appeared in Puerto Rico in 2008, four years before the first such funeral in New Orleans, with a 24-year-old murder victim whose viewing took place in his family’s living room, the body tethered against a wall. Angel Luis Pantojas’s funeral — called “muerto parao,” dead man standing — became an instant sensation
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/us/its-not-the-living-dead-just-a-funeral-with-flair.html

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