The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina stands erect and leans against a wall by his coffin during his own wake in his mother's home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The last wish of Medina , 24, who was found dead on Aug. 15, 2008 underneath a bridge in the capital, was to be standing at his own wake, and was embalmed for the occasion. (AP Photo/Juan Alicea Marcado, El Nuevo Dia)
This is utterly ridiculous. Sure we have seen people in the casket that looks like a car, or with their favorite team decoration, or even with the full ensemble of trickets inside the casket with them. But to be standing over the casket that you should be in? What if you didn't know that he was in the corner when you walk in the room? That would be the scariest and weirdest thing in the world. Or what if you looked in the casket and thought that he was missing?
