Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Uhhhm, Speachless!!

- A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death.
- A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
- Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room.
- His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: ‘He wanted to be happy, standing.’
- The owner of the Marin Funeral Home, Damaris Marin, told The Associated Press the mother asked him to fulfill her dead son’s last wish.
- Pantoja was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday.




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