Believe it or not, this funeral home is Puerto Rico is gaining a reputation for these unorthodox kinds of wakes.
But, something about this seems really disrespectful in a way.
Maybe it’s just me, but this turns my
stomach.
From Bag of Nothing.com:
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.
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.
You know what?
A wake is not suppose to be a spectacle or a fun event. You suppose to pay your last respects and grieve for the departed, not make a museum display out of them. And what's hurtful to me, is that this foolishes happened in the land of my heritage, Puerto Rico. Come on gimmie a break with this silliness.
The Last Tradition
