Bizarre The last few years to be undertakers in Puerto Rico and New Orleans are increasingly asked to kill to embalm and put them in lifelike poses. So was a deceased taxi driver in his taxi and a boxer in a combat ring. But it can also just be in a lazy chair with a PS4 controller in hand and an open bag of chips within easy reach.

In place of their loved ones to give birth in an ordinary coffin, choose some families make to the body in a lifelike attitude to posing. Just as if they were still alive. It is a non-traditional commemoration in 2008 for the first time was carried out in Puerto Rico. The funeral director, Marín bare when a motorcycle enthusiast on a motorcycle and the murdered boxer Christopher Rivera Amaro in a boxing ring.

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Renard Matthews from New Orleans got a special memorial service. The 18-year-old boy was two weeks after he was shot dead embalmed. Slumped, he was with a pair of sunglasses on a chair with a PS4 controller in his hands, and his favorite snacks (Doritos and Root beer) at your fingertips.

The family of Miriam Burbank (53) also chose to put her on this special way to give birth. Her daughters wanted their mother one last time seeing as they knew her: sitting at the table with her favorite beer, mentholsigaretten and dressed in black. The gold accents refer to the colors of the New Orleans Saints, her favorite football team. “It was just as if she still was with us,” said her sister Sherline about the funeral.

Henry Rosario Martinez (31), a pokerliefhebber who died on a wrong mix of pills and alcohol, and poker table set for a final game of Texas Hold’em. And the deceased taxi driver, Victor Perez Cardona was in his old taxi placed.

Corpse preservative

When embalming is via the circulatory system, a preservative liquid in the body is sprayed, which present endogenous proteins are fixated. This is the dissolution are delayed. To the bodies in all sorts of positions to get, feet rooted to the ground and piles in the body stabbed to the neck and the head straight.

While a traditional embalming around 580 euro cost, are families willing to more than 2,300 euros to pay for this special service.