This is creepy: Corpse Kept Upright for 3-Day Wake.

[stephanie]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Aug. 19) - 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.
Medina was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police are investigating.



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[Daniel]

you're right.. that IS creepy. he looks fake.

[sharkmx62]

yikes. I hate funeral viewings, this is even worse

[tobz173]

very odd. My parents own and run a funeral director's business, never heard of anything this strange. Only in the U.S i guess :eww:

[Ivar614]

Puerto Rico
wait...isn't puerto rico a us territory or some crap like that?

[sharkmx62]

Puerto Rico
wait...isn't puerto rico a us territory or some crap like that?
Yes it is

[Ivar614]

mah bad. wasn't sure
i don't really consider puerto rico to be US tho. ya know what i means?
how do territories work anyways? Do we get taxes,etc. from them or is it just a glorified term for being protected by the US?

[eighttwelve]

I don't see the big deal.

[sharkmx62]

mah bad. wasn't sure
i don't really consider puerto rico to be US tho. ya know what i means?
how do territories work anyways? Do we get taxes,etc. from them or is it just a glorified term for being protected by the US?
I dont have a clue as to how it works. I went to Puerto Rico, and I really dont get how it constitutes as a territory.

[odeezie]

I may have the taxidermist stuff my dog when she goes....i cant imagine not having her around.

[docweedon]

Saw that yesterday...very creepy indeed. gives me the heebeejeebees...ugh!!

[LEE3383]

I may have the taxidermist stuff my dog when she goes....i cant imagine not having her around.

That would make me sad seeing my dog all day but not being able to play. It would be a horrible reminder for me.

I can barely look at pictures of my old dog cash. Im still sad.

[mx_guy]

I've never heard of something like this before. i think its pretty funny that hes just posted up there on the wall and hes still got his hand on his crotch lookin like a thug lol.

[stephanie]

I may have the taxidermist stuff my dog when she goes....i cant imagine not having her around.

eww gross.
why dont you just do like that one lady and sell your house to be able to clone the dog. or pawn off your kids, i'll buy them...


SEOUL, South Korea - The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.

Now she is happy, minus $50,000 and her house, and owner of five cloned Booger puppies.

"It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive again," McKinney told a news conference in the South Korean capital to show off the week-old black puppies -- all of whose names include the word Booger.

They are the work of the biotech firm RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab, which produced the world's first cloned dog and is staffed with former associates of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.

She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000 for RNL scientists to turn skin cells taken from Booger before he died two years ago into embryos carried by two surrogate dogs for two months until giving birth to the puppies last week.

[offspring22]

I refuse to go to funerals.

[Aus_Rider_22]

I refuse to go to funerals.

Are you serious?

[offspring22]

Are you serious?


Yes. I find them to be hideous, distasteful events. The only "funeral" I would go to is if it were an informal party environment. Human life should be celebrated, not mourned.

[Jarid332]

That's so gangsta!

[offspring22]

That's so gangsta!



ROFL XD:confused:

[odeezie]

People definitely do odd things with corpses:

Court Rules Three Men Can Face Charges In Sexual Assault Of Corpse - Madison News Story - WISC Madison (http://www.channel3000.com/news/16829731/detail.html)



Court Rules Three Men Can Face Charges In Sexual Assault Of Corpse

Men Were Charged With Third-Degree Sexual Assault

MADISON, Wis. -- Three men are now facing attempted sexual assault charges after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that people can be charged with sexual assault when the victims are dead.

Back in 2006, the three men -- Alexander Grunke, his twin brother Nicholas Grunke and their friend Dustin Radke -- were arrested on suspicion of digging up the corpse of a woman in order to have sex with it.

Lower courts dismissed the attempted third-degree sexual assault charges against the trio, saying that state law doesn't criminalize necrophilia.

However, the state Supreme Court overturned that ruling.
The court's ruling reinstates the charges against the three.

The men allegedly went to a southwestern Wisconsin cemetery in September 2006 to remove the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, of Cassville, who was killed in a recent motorcycle crash. One of men apparently saw an obituary photo of her and asked the others to help dig up the body so he could have sex with it. The men went to the cemetery with shovels, a crowbar, a tarpaulin, and a box of condoms, which the men had purchased that evening on their way to the cemetery. They used shovels to reach her grave but eventually abandoned their plan and were caught by authorities.



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[sharkmx62]

That is so freaking nasty...

























...Who would want to sleep with the same person their brother did?

[Derek]

Yes. I find them to be hideous, distasteful events. The only "funeral" I would go to is if it were an informal party environment. Human life should be celebrated, not mourned.

I go, but I dont look at the body. Seems very morbid to me.

[O'Brien#12]

I went to one and i couldn't stop looking at the coffin, i couldn't grasp the idea that the last time i will see this individual they would be in a box. I would of preferred to just remembered the last time i held a conversation with them. It is a bit morbid especially the open caskets....thats creepy!