…that my funeral be made the creepiest, most unbearably uncomfortable experience for all who attend:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death.
A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother's living room.
His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: "He wanted to be happy, standing."
The owner of the Marin Funeral Home, Damaris Marin, told The Associated Press the mother asked him to fulfill her dead son's last wish.
Pantoja was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police are investigating.
The DoF has learned that in addition to this off-beat request, Pantoja also requested his dead body be carted around by Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy during a post-wake blowout at his beach house. Weird.
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"Weekend at Bernie's III: Yo' ass is grass, Esé"
That's hysterical, I wonder what would have happened if he fell over? Probably would have busted those stunner shades
i loved weekend at bernies when i was 9. a year later it would insult my intelligence.
creepiest.funeral.ever.
Funny, he doesn't have that amazing plasticity about his face all corpses have at a funeral.
Oh wait, he does.
However he does kind of look like a puerto rican Randy Jackson.
"Yo, stand me up after i'm dead, Dawg."
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