funeral home displays body on motorcycle

[Liberal_in_LA]

picture at link

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/27/puerto-rican-funeral-home-presents-shooting-victim-on-his-motorc/

Puerto Rican funeral home presents shooting victim on his motorcycle


If you thought you'd previously seen it all, well, you're wrong. Case in point: David Morales Colón, a 22-year-old Puerto Rican man who was shot to death last Thursday, and whose wake is now making headlines here in the United States mainland. How come? Well, suffice it to say that the funeral directors at Marin Funeral Home in San Juan's Hato Rey neighborhood have a flair for the unorthodox. For example, in 2008, they embalmed another young shooting victim and displayed his body standing up for the duration of a multi-day wake.

Back to the present: Yesterday and today, callers who stopped to pay their final respects to the late Mr. Colón got a bit of a surprise. Instead of the traditional presentation of the body in a casket, Mr. Colón's corpse, dressed in casual duds and sunglasses, was instead posed in a very lifelike position atop his Repsol-liveried Honda CBR600 F4. According to Puerto Rico's Primera Hora newspaper, the motorcycle was given to the victim by his uncle, and upon Mr. Colón's untimely demise, family members delivered the bike to the funeral home specifically for this unusual wake.

[kestrel91316]

1. Ok, how are they gonna get him into the casket now???

He's gotta be so stiff, they'll have to break bones......

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. In the news clip, they were talking to the mortician and he said

that it is very hard to do. To make the body stiff enough to stay on the motorcycle, and yet be able to stretch it out again for the casket. I am imagining that some type of wiring was used.

[47of74]

2. If the family is cool with it, then I'm cool with it

I don't know that I'd want that for a member of my family though.

[WillyT]

4. *singing* - "I.... Don't Want A Pickle...."

Was listening to that song just last night.

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. The one that really "got me" was the same funeral home did

the man standing in the corner. He wanted to be displayed like he was just "hanging out". There's two reasons it bothered me. 1. The standing in the corner looks creepy in the video and 2. That these young men think to make their last requests known at 20. What a life they must lead to be preparing for that. :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. link to pic of corpse standing. Glad they can be so comfortable with death

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26290833

Must be really sad to have son's body standing in the living room for THREE DAYS!

[snagglepuss]

9. That is so odd I don't know how to respond.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. When my great-grandfather died,

they tipped his coffin on end and displayed him standing up. My grandmother had the pictures to prove it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. wow