Puerto Rican Corpse Embalmed Standing Up For 3-Day Wake

Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Idiocy

One thing’s for sure, Angel Pantoja Medina, the 24-year-old Puerto Rican man whose last wish was to be stood up for the entirety of his own wake, bring’s a whole new meaning to the term “gangsta lean”:
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 [...]