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.