They do the same thing with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, posing her as if she's still alive.
Posted on 07/31/2018 12:54:05 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
Two weeks after Renard Matthews was tragically shot and killed in his New Orleans neighborhood, the 18-year-old looked exactly how he had in life. At his wake, he lay slumped in an office chair in front of a TV "playing" NBA2K with his hands wrapped around a PS4 controller. Clad in sunglasses, socks and flip-flops, and a Celtics jersey, he even had his favorite snacks—Doritos and root beer—within reach. And that’s just how his family wanted it.
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They did bury him on his Harley.
Not just pagan-as a couple of posters pointed out-it has been done before, right here in America by Christian Caucasians, too-there were even so called “Angel books”-books with lifelike pictures of dead small children-that were given to funeral guests or could be bought around the Victorian era-I call that creepier by far. I’m a Texas Latina and Catholic-There are some rituals in Latino/Catholic culture that celebrate death as a happy event-like Dia de los Muertos when you put up an altar in your home with a crucifix or statue, photos of departed family members and you put flowers, fruit, etc on it and pray a rosary for their souls-whatever helps someone accept the death of a loved one, rather than them staying in denial is probably not a bad thing, even if bizarre...
Your funeral isn’t at the top of the charts until you get a Stevie Ray Vaughan song about it though.
S - I - C - K - !
I'm particularly amused by the lady with her wine glass full of Busch beer. Pure class!
I simply cannot wait to see the final arrangements for 0bama!
Barackopolis themed, styrofoam columns, the voice of Mr. Montalban,’ fine Corinthian columns...’
With Zero himself supported by a nice fake column, large fans off to the side to blow the stink away...
Note: fake Doric will be used to cut costs.
They do the same thing with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, posing her as if she's still alive.
Wow - those are a bit disturbing, but still more dignified than being posed with your beer and smokes.
Well , ok . that is a memorial and well taken I just see propping up a dead body as disrespectful ghoulish.I have instructed that I not be viewed by anyone. I had to suffer that as a child it it was horrible.
Pelosi and McCain would object to this talk of Ginsberg if Pelosi and McCain were actually still alive.
It’s not “extreme embalming.” It’s called “taxidermy.”
I grew up in a large extended family-on a ranch in a remote area-we must have been taught from day one to accept the fact of death and not fear it-it was just time to go to God. The reality of death for animals -livestock gets slaughtered for food and there’s deer season-does tend to make seeing the dead less frightening-we never were bothered by the ritual of touching a dead relative’s hand for the last time while saying we’d see them again-and when I was 7, I witnessd the death of a great aunt from cancer, along with many other female relatives present at her home, some of them already cooking the funeral supper as we kids opened the windows and doors-another ritual. I think Latinos in general have a rather fatalistic and pragmatic view of life and death. That said-don’t want any viewing of myself, either-I and most of my family intend to be cremated and ashes scattered on our property when God says our number is up.
I remember on a WC Fields biography that he did something like this with one of his friends so he could have one last drink with him.
LMAO-and wiping ice tea off my monitor... Taxidermy is perfect-I can just picture one of them posed right beside a 12 point trophy buck or a 400 lb. feral/wild hog-in the big display window of the shop...
Just goes to show how things have changed, and the makes you wonder what kind of life these folks today lead if that’s how they want to be remembered.
The guy on the motorcycle was a bit cool, but green leotards? There’s a story there, but I don’t think I want to know what it is. LOL!
Seriously, as creepy as it looks now, I understand the need for a portrait when photographs were rare. It really was possible the only chance you had to save a photo of your loved one.
The guy on the motorcycle was a bit cool, but green leotards? There’s a story there, but I don’t think I want to know what it is. LOL!
Seriously, as creepy as it looks now, I understand the need for a portrait when photographs were rare. It really was possible the only chance you had to save a photo of your loved one.
Please inform them that one has to be dead before being embalmed -- or after being embalmed.
This was a pretty standard practice in Victorian times. Often the whole family had a portrait done with the deceased as one of the subjects. Purpose of this? Still trying to figure it out. Horrible.
I wonder what they could do with this cadaver.
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