Dead guy on motorbike
I found this while looking in google at different bikes. At first i thought it was just some random sitting on the bike, but it turns out he's the owner and he's actually dead. These photo's were taken at the wake. Kinda creepy, but i have to say i quite like the idea.
Puerto Rican funeral home presents shooting victim on his motorcycle [w/video] — Autoblog
Why? in a wake the body is exposed for everyone to see anyway. This is just another way of doing it, while showing everyone the passion he had for motorcycles.Originally Posted by VTPREDATOR
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Dont remember the name but decades ago before I was born some Hollywood star got buried in his Cadillac
So having a open casket is also "messed up"? I don't understand what the difference is.
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Sounds like the song off the From Dusk Till Dawn soundtrack... Willie The Wimp (And His Cadillac Coffin) by Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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Man, you expect him to jump up and say 'boo' haha
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It seems like a throw back to an old mexican/south american tradition of embalming the dead and leaving them in the house.
He would have been dead tired after 3 days standing.
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hahahahahahahahaha ill pay that
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Riiiiiiiiight.
You don't understand the difference between having someone laying down in an open casket looking like they are sleeping and having them standing in the corner in everyday clothes and sunnies?
Standing being something predominantly being something living people do and dead people not so much. Unless their zombies.
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Its just a cultural difference. Not really something I would consider messed up.
They probably think nailing a dead person into a wooden box is a little odd...
People have different ways of doing things, there's no right or wrong with something like this. If you were bought up in that culture it would most likely not be a problem for you. I don't believe in zombies either, once your dead you don't come back.
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Ok... in that case, you should respect the fact that I and others think it's messed up rather than jumping on every post where someone says it's messed up with a "Why, it's just like this and that...".
Thus, that is messed up...
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Just shows a little narrow mindedness is all.
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Whatever people want to do at a wake or a funeral isn't messed up. It's what they bloody well want to do! They're not asking you to attend!
I want to arrange my own funeral and attend it. Sit on a concrete podium and light myself on fire while Good Riddance by Greenday is playing....That's be awesome! But not knowing when you're going to die so you can arrange that for the day before sucks.
Are we there yet?
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Are we there yet?
You may not realise it, but, it happens a lot here in Oz as well. I am a Funeral Director and our company regularly takes embalmed bodies to the family's home and leave them there for anywhere from overnight to 3 or 4 days before the Funeral. Islanders do it all the time, and so do a lot of Hindus. If the family home isnt suitable, Islanders will often want it left in the Church overnight and the mourners stay there overnight with the deceased sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor of the Church. I did one just like that about 3 weeks ago. In our multi-cultural society there are many Funeral customs that seem weird and strange to us, but to them they are normal. If ya really wanna see some "very different" customs, go to a Laotian, Filipino, Islander or Macedonian Funeral, you will see some things there that will open your eyes, I'll tell ya!.The thing is though that to an outsider they may look weird, but if you take the time to learn the history and cultural significance behind some of the more bizarre customs they actually make a lot of sense and dont seem so bizarre. I have to admit, after working in this industry for quite a few years now, I have learned that compared to most other cultures, most Western cultures Funerals on the whole are quite boring.
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Last edited by Stugdum; 02-12-2010 at 08:19 PM.
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So because I'm not invited to an even it's I can't have an opinion on it?Whatever people want to do at a wake or a funeral isn't messed up. It's what they bloody well want to do! They're not asking you to attend!
I want to arrange my own funeral and attend it. Sit on a concrete podium and light myself on fire while Good Riddance by Greenday is playing....
Interesting... interesting... going on this logic, you must attend ALOT of everything because you seem to have an opinion on most things. If I look down a few threads... wow... you had opinions on the current situation in Korean... so how is Korean this time or year?
Fairly confident I'm entitled to my own opinion on basically, well, anything I want really. And the fact that I wasn't invited to it's other peoples culture to do so doesn't change the fact I think it's messed up.
My opinion on having a dead person stading in the room at their own wake for 3 days = Messed, the #### up...
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Um it has NOTHING to do with you being invited or not. It's NOT messed up just because you say it is. End of story.
And by the way, Korean is a nationality or a language and not a place - so I don't imagine its state changed based on the time of year.
"Respect", what the hell. I was merely asking you, and the others that said it was messed up a question. Never know I might see it in a way i didn't before, thats why I question people that have a different opinion.
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But your last comment suggested I shouldn't have an opinion on the subject because I wasn't asked to attend.
I think you're having a little difficulty distinguishing between "fact" and "opinion".
Since there is no way to factually saying if this event is messed up or not, we can only express a subjective opinion on it.
Also, since this is my subjective opinion on something that has no objective right or wrong, my statement stands.
I think that this is messed up.
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