Article avec un vidéoDead Man Displayed On Motorcycle At Wake
Family Requests Pose
The family of a Puerto Rico man killed in a shooting last week followed his wishes and gave him a funeral no one will forget.
Instead of being embalmed and placed in a casket for viewing, 22-year-old David Morales Colon was posed on a motorcycle during his wake. The bike was a gift from his uncle.
Colon's body was dressed in full riding attire -- leather jacket, gloves and sunglasses. His hands were on the handlebars and his body crouched low over the bike.
The funeral home owner said it takes special skill to make the body rigid enough to pose, yet not too stiff to put back in a coffin for burial.
"Embalming is the key," Marin Funeral Home owner Demaris Marin said. "It's a professional secret."
Video of Colon on the motorcycle has gone viral online with titles like "Dead Man Riding."
The funeral home has done this before. In 2008, a young man who died told his family he wanted to be happy and standing at his own funeral. So undertakers posed him that way.
Marin said reaction to such post-mortem displays has been divided.
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