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This is 26-year-old Jesús Díaz Beato, who was shot and killed outside of his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his family chose to honor him how he lived — literally.






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Jomar Aguayo Collazo, the guy in above in blue Adidas sweatshirt, was killed in a drug-related shootout a little after his 23rd birthday. Within days of his death, he was back at his mother’s bar, conveniently behind a table, playing dominoes. Booze, condoms and cigarettes close at hand just as he was alive.


Dont mind the little embalming fluid on his shoulder, give this guy a break, at least his adidas suit looks trendy






Mr Batiste did not want people looking down at him, so at his service he was standing up, leaning on a lamp post, hands on his walking cane, hat tipped rakishly to one side.





And well-known New Orleans socialite and philanthropist Mickey Easterling, 83, was arranged posing with a glass of bubbly in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

She was dressed in an evening gown, complete with ornate hat and a pink feather boa.

At the Miami funeral of murdered record label executive Alexander Bernard Harris, mourners paid their respects as he sat in his yellow Lamborghini, wearing jeans, a red San Francisco 49ers baseball cap and sunglasses.



In Ohio, biker Billy Standley, 82, was buried in a glass casket astride his beloved Harley Davidson Electra Glide cruiser.

He had started funeral preparations himself by buying three large plots next to his wife Lorna, big enough to accommodate him and his bike.





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Thirty years ago Chicago gambler Willie Stokes Jr was buried in a casket resembling a Cadillac Seville.

Stokes, 28, who had been shot dead on the steps of a motel, was propped up in the driver’s seat. His car coffin boasted blinking headlights, a windscreen, Cadillac grille and a licence plate with Willie’s “Wimp” nickname.



In Puerto Rico, Angel Pantoja Medina, who was shot dead in 2008 and thrown over a bridge in his underwear, is now forever remembered as “el muerto parao” or dead man standing.

His corpse was leant against a wall, dressed as a rapper and wearing his favourite New York Yankees cap.

His aunt Ana Delia Pantojas said: “All sorts came to see him – lawyers, judges. Everyone was saying things like, ‘for my wake I want to be in my recliner with a cup of coffee’.”




Motorbike-loving David Morales was embalmed sitting on his beloved Honda.



Then paramedic Edgardo Velazquez was embalmed in his uniform sitting in the driver’s seat of his own ambulance.

Such is the success of the funeral home’s alternative funerals, that they are keeping the embalming process that makes the poses possible a closely guarded secret.




Grandmother Georgina Chervony told her family she wanted to be part of her own wake.

So when the 80-year-old died from natural causes her daughter Miriam dressed her in her wedding gown and sat her in her rocking chair taking centre-stage for the whole gathering.





One family even asked them to pose their son Carlos Cabrera as Che Guevara, cross-legged, head bowed, cigar in hand. The funeral home has even branched out into pet wakes, posing a dead German Shepherd dog called Capitan on his owner’s motorbike.





Their most extravagant wake to date was for boxer Christopher Rivera Amora. Standing in the ring, gloves on and head bowed, Amora could have been preparing for the fight of his life. If he wasn’t dead.









The body of Renato Garcia, dressed as fictional superhero the Green Lantern, is propped up against a wall in his sister's apartment, during his wake in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015.

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Forgot one photo

At the Miami funeral of murdered record label executive Alexander Bernard Harris, mourners paid their respects as he sat in his yellow Lamborghini, wearing jeans, a red San Francisco 49ers baseball cap and sunglasses.



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XELA Entertainment's Alex LeCount (left) and Alexander Bernard Harris

[normdiaz]

Funerals, after all, are for the living.

[Wolf]

I want to be placed in the seating area of my own funeral with an empty, open casket. See how long before anyone knows i'm still among the living.

[Ninjavandal]

"Rather than donating my Harley to, say, a charity, I'm going to be my typically selfish-self and be buried with it."
As for the balance of that shit, it's just gross.

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Most of these have been posted already

[Royal_Madnessty]

i prefer cremation. no way that i'm ok with my dead corpse being a freaking attraction or freakshow.

[Royal_Madnessty]

Originally Posted by >< 0300, infantry >< ↗

Most of these have been posted already

I didn't have the chance to go through all the 557 pages yet, i'm trying tho. i'm halfway there.

[SargeistExisting]

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[SargeistExisting]

Originally Posted by Royal_Madnessty ↗

I didn't have the chance to go through all the 557 pages yet, i'm trying tho. i'm halfway there.

Recognizing a repost is a badge of honor for most members here. It shows longevity. I have also seen these photos posted many times here. Some speak up, some don't. Considering you've only been a member for a few months, stfu and enjoy this OPEN forum.