Dead
Man kept standing upright for 3-day
wake in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto
Rican man has been granted his
wish to remain standing — even after 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." Yeah, right... Pantoja was found dead Friday
underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police are
investigating. ¿Mmmm? In any case, since he was dead, he literarily
had no say in the way his family was to bury him... but as weird as
weird can be, the man remained in "attention" the whole 3 days.
Chocolate and crackers later tonight, i guess.
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