Body layed out a little differnet...

[Richard Vyse]

I got this from Rick Franklin and knew the PCS people would be interested in it. The only thing we've done at our funeral home was bringing in a guys Harley for his service, having my Lifeliner at a service, having a man's race car at the service then taking him to the track and having the hearse and limo drive around the track.

Times are changing people. Let's see what could we do with Paul Steinberg? Any ideas.

Marin Funeral Home has embalmed the body of a young man and put the corpse atop a motorcycle in a hunched-over racing position. The body wears a black cap, black sunglasses and a long-sleeved black T-shirt

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/RichardV_2006/100428_motorcycle_burial.jpg

[Jim Staruk]

He was a real stand-up guy, even in death.

A funeral home in Puerto Rico used a special embalming treatment to keep the body of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for a three-day wake in his mother's San Juan home.

Donning a New York Yankees cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in the living room.

"[Angel] wanted to be happy, standing," his brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper

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. Police were investigating. (AP)

[Steve Lichtman]

I saw pictures of one where the guy was propped up in a recliner chair, watching football on TV.

[Todd Merrifield]

Is that the same guy, or did the same funeral home do two different guys? Forgive my ignorance, but can you change a bodys position after embalming?

[Richard Vyse]

but can you change a bodys position after embalming?

Anything is possible with a little/lot of effort. :4_11_9:

[Rocky Fluegge]

My wife is not thrilled, but i want to custom paint and body work my casket, and install a hurst shifter that can hinge up to have my hand mounted to for the viewing. She says she dont want to see it so it will get built and crated till it is needed! Im all about going out in your own style.

[Sarah Snook]

Is that the same guy, or did the same funeral home do two different guys? Forgive my ignorance, but can you change a bodys position after embalming?

Same funeral home, but two different guys.

[Kevin Lynch]

We have an urn that looks like the gas tank on a Harley Davidson. This takes the cake!!!! I've told my colleagues that I'd like my casket striped like a patrol car. At least pin stripes with the door badge on the lid.
Haaaaaaa

[Mike Stevens]

Richard,
Did they bury the guy AND his bike?
I think there is an idea for a new book here. Bizarre funerals. ? Or maybe it has already been done.
Mike

[Richard Vyse]

Richard,
Did they bury the guy AND his bike?
I think there is an idea for a new book here. Bizarre funerals. ? Or maybe it has already been done.
Mike

Not sure Mike but it would be a shame to bury the bike. :3_7_11v:

[Cary Livingston]

Through the "Freedom of Misinformation Act" Richard's final wishes as to how he wants to be laid out recently came to light.......

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ebto9z.jpg

:angel:

[Danny Ryder]

Not sure Mike but it would be a shame to bury the bike. :3_7_11v:

I believe in people doing what they want for their final wishes within reason, some of these are a bit much!

[Richard Vyse]

Through the "Freedom of Misinformation Act" Richard's final wishes as to how he wants to be laid out recently came to light.......

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ebto9z.jpg

:angel:


Now that is funny, I don't care who you!!!! :specool:

[Josh Gentry]

Through the "Freedom of Misinformation Act" Richard's final wishes as to how he wants to be laid out recently came to light.......

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ebto9z.jpg

:angel:Cary, we all know Richard will hit that many posts way before he kicks the bucket.:respect:

Josh

[Kenn Evans II]

Is that the same guy, or did the same funeral home do two different guys? Forgive my ignorance, but can you change a bodys position after embalming?

Not generally, once we embalm the remains the muscle tissue sets up very firm and it is difficult to do much after that, ones final pose is determined during the embaming, I would imagine that after they embalmed this young man they dressed him and put him on the motorcycle before his tissues firmed from the embalming.

[Chris M. Kelley]

How would you casket them after they "firmed up" in that position? I've had patients that froze to death before, and wouldn't fit in a body bag. One actually froze on the knees, arms out on the floor of a vehicle, head to the side. So we had to strap (the patient) to a reeves on (the patient)'s side, and that's how we placed said victim on the slab in the funeral home.

Sorry.. That's just too creepy. Casket, fine. Standing. No. Wouldn't there be issues with things settling, or unusual pressure causing "leaks" from the forces of gravity in said position?

[Jim Tighe]

The most impressive funeral service I ever attended occurred at a seminary in Indiana where I was a student. In the Fall of 1960, one of the elderly monks passed away. After the funeral mass in the Abbey church, the whole community walked from the church to the nearby communal cemetery. The Abbot said a few more words, then the plain wood coffin ( just like we see in the Westerns ) was lowered by ropes into the freshly dug grave. The Abbot picked up a shovel, dug into the mound of dirt, and threw the shovel's contents into the hole. The dirt hit the wood box with a THUD that said "finality" even louder than Mozart's "Requiem."

When Benny Goodman died on Friday, June 13, 1986, there was no funeral at all. His housekeeper found him in his study, slumped over on the sofa there, in front of a music stand with Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto in A" thereon. His hands still firmly grasped the clarinet that defined his life. Twenty four hours later, his mortal remains were under the ground, in keeping with Jewish burial practice. His life had said everything that needed to be said about him, so no memorial ritual-after-death was necessary.

The moral I draw from these two incidents is that simple and modest is better than over-wrought and showy. When we are gone, we are gone. I can understand a person who has had a sad life wanting an elaborate going-away party as a sort of redeeming final statement ( I once had a very miserable, lonely Welfare client who had drawn up an elaborate funeral and burial production for himself ), but for most of us, going out with simplicity seems much more befitting. One old man's humble opinion.

[Dennis Svoboda]

I shared this story and photo with a couple of funeral directors I work with. They said that since most of the people in Nebraska are conservative that they would not see something like this. They also said, never say never.

[Richard Vyse]

This man couldn't bear to depart with his wife so he had a special glass coffee table made to out her and kept her in his living room.

Paul, now there's a thought!!!!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/RichardV_2006/lucy2.jpg

[Paul Steinberg]

Through the "Freedom of Misinformation Act" Richard's final wishes as to how he wants to be laid out recently came to light.......

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ebto9z.jpg

:angel:

I go away for a few days, and I miss all the great humor Richard provides for us... Thanks Cary for posting this... I believe that he still has time to reach the total of 2.836.984 posts, and hopefully he will complete this number during my lifetime... :angel:

[Chris M. Kelley]

This man couldn't bear to depart with his wife so he had a special glass coffee table made to out her and kept her in his living room.

Paul, now there's a thought!!!!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/RichardV_2006/lucy2.jpg

That could turn into a real horror show, esp. if the glass broke.

[John Royark JR]

That could turn into a real horror show, esp. if the glass broke.

It has been proven years ago that this pic is a hoax.