Standing Tall
24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina of Puerto Rico apparently told his family that when he passes away, he wants to stand upright through his wake. Well, his family granted his wish. Dressed in a Yankees cap, sunglasses and a gold chain, Angel was mourned by family members while standing tall in his mother's living room for 3 days.
The funeral home told The Associated Press that they used a special embalming treatment to keep him standing. His brother said, "He wanted to be happy, standing."
The police are currently investigating Angel's death. His body was found underneath a bridge last Friday.
I guess it's not that strange. I mean, I want half of my ashes stuffed into one of Shauna Sand's exquisite lucite heels. I want the other half scattered along Robertson Blvd. That way I will always be with international supermodel Phoebe Price. Oh and save a line of my ashes for Amy Wino. I want her to snort me up, Keith Richards-style.
Okay, I take it back. After going through these pictures, I need someone to hold my hand and feed me a Twinkie. I'm a little uncomfortable
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Okay, more from the article:
The mortician is a friend of the family.
Angel is held up with straps to the wall? Am I translating that right. Holy crap.
The morticians are getting fancy requests and are receiving calls of congratulations from other morticians.
Ew. ew. ew.
So, my question is, how did the family hire caterers for this party.
"Uh, yes, we'd like several party platters. The gathering will be for a recently deceased family member. Just to let you know, he will be there. Standing in the corner."
This story disturbs me...!!!
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Submitted by Your Mom Ate th... on August 19, 2008 - 3:47pm.
Awesome. I love stuff like this. And if you all think this is creepy, I'm not even gonna tell you what people used to do back in the 19th century!
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NO! Tell us! This stuff fascinates me, as long as I don't have to look at real pictures of it.
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I have a picture of a dead girl who was kept on ice for 9 days because her mother apparently couldn't bear to part with her. Then, on the ninth day, they took a photo of her sitting upright with a bible in her hand.
When a child died and it left siblings behind, sometimes the parents would make the siblings pose with the dead child.
When a family member died, that person would be kept in a coffin in the family's livingroom for all to see.
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I did a research paper on this for sociology class...It's called post mortem photography (Google it). It was done in Victorian times and kind of "died out" in the 20th century when cameras became more common. Often the only pictures people ever had taken of them were taken after they died. Most of the pictures I've seen are of little kids too, but child death was just a fact of life back then - it happened a lot. Sometimes they just look like they're sleeping (some are really hauntingly beautiful in a creepy way) but sometimes they propped the bodies up and tried to make the person look alive (even painting the eyelids to make it look like eyes were open) and posed them with siblings, pets or the whole family. Creepy stuff but kind of a fascinating thing to do a paper on...(sigh) I miss college, beats the hell out of having a job.
Can you imagine leaving that in your house for 3 days? You're going to get your regular Midnight Martini and there's Angel standing in the corner... waiting... watching... smelling...
*shudder*
Get thee to a Palm Mortuary, dude.
Fuckery! So, so crazy.
His family should be slapped for even THINKING this would be a good idea.
ANd the mortuary should be shut down.
Tonight on Telemundo: El Fin de Semana Con Angel Pantoja Medina.
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The saddest part about all this is that a lot of Angel's friends, who aren't older than 25, are making bizarre requests to their relatives about how they want their wakes to be. Some even asked to be put on their motorcycles or cars. Their neighborhood is so violent that they actually expect to die young. Angel death's is another one among many murders happening lately in that housing project. It is horrible.
That's about the trashiest thing I have seen in a long time and I come from a long line of white trash! His own Mother didn't even dress decently for her son's funeral, then she desecrated his corpse? No wonder he died so young if she was the primary influence in his life.
Well, if he's been requesting this, he must not have lived a very straight life. Hence making abserd after death requests at such a young age.
Submitted by lahlah on August 19, 2008 - 6:54pm.
Me neither, but I'm nosy and I had to find out what the story was on this weird dude.
Now I'm reading another part of the article and it says that he had been requesting this for the past six years. They can't get their years and days straight.
That is straight up, (no pun intended), FUCKED UP.
"This ain't rock n roll. This is genocide!"
M.E. LMAO we are examining this dude waaaaay too closely now!
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"Blame it on the London air!"
Submitted by Tracy Lynn on August 19, 2008 - 6:47pm.
No me gusta.
I looked him up on the net and one website said they found his body "buried" under a bridge.
Maybe that's why he doesn't look so good?? well, that and the fact that he's dead.
The article says that he requested to have this for his funeral six days before he died.
He looks really bloated. Maybe embalming does that?
Submitted by Sweetas on August 19, 2008 - 5:00pm.
I think his hand on his junk is a nice touch.
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This is by far the tackiest most disgusting display of totally fucked up bad taste that I have ever seen, and i'm only referring to his stupid sunglasses and baseball cap. I mean really if you're gonna prop up a dead guy than at least make him look decent instead of a stiff billboard for tacky accessories.
OMG! Go to the website of the original story: http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/que_me_v...
they have 6 pictures. The first one is of a floor fan blowing on the corpse!
The last one is of the guy when he was alive. He looks a lot different. I'm guessing a violent death that made him look so different, or a really bad mortuary job.
Snowpiece - ARRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
*convulses in seizures*
SP, think IV line/needle. The bigger the line and the bigger the vein, the quicker the 'medicine' goes in! Angel Diaz was executed after a very long and painful struggle with his lethal injection. The incompetent people doing it had infiltrated his arm (pushed through the vein into the muscle). The the potassium chlorate (drug #3-heart stopper) would have burned like acid in his arms and he was partially paralyzed from drug #2, Thiopental. Can't say I shed a tear, but that's a messed up way to go! Speaking of going, I gotta go. Some of the old memories are creeping up on me again.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats-H.L. Mencken
Prop me up beside the jukebox when I die
Lord I wanna go to heaven
But I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand
Put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox when I die
Submitted by M.E. on August 19, 2008 - 3:29pm.
Ok, so I know they sew the mouths shut, but like that? Really?
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A friend of mine (that is studying to be a mortician) told me that they don't sew their mouths shut anymore. They have these metal things that fit over their teeth... one on the side that clamps the jaws shut (from the inside) to keep the mouth from gaping open and the other fits over their front teeth and has little prongs or "teeth" on it that hook into the flesh on the inside of the lips to keep them closed.
I am a fount of useless information, yes?
Dr. D: not sure what "a large trauma bore needle to the groin" would be but it made me shudder just reading it!
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"Blame it on the London air!"
Another strange fact about my friend's dad. He once volunteered his services to the state prison to do lethal injections. Makes some sense to me(?). He has a medical degree of sorts and knows anatomy very well. I image a discount in 'post' services might have been a conflict though. His dad said that when Timothy Mcveigh was executed, he got a foley cath ( peen line), an anal plug, and a large trauma bore needle to the groin. He didn't get the job, but I imagine he could have done it well. I've had a few beers with his dad and he comes across as completely normal-save his stories, which I really had no difficulties with. Shop talk of sorts, I guess.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats-H.L. Mencken
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"Blame it on the London air!"
Ok, now ship his ass off to Madame Tussaud's.
That is creepy as hell. Put me in a coffin or in a coffee can, please.
...is he being propped up by his own coffin?
Snowy, Your Av looks like Rumer Willis.. lol...
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NICE job on the avie, SP! I'm sure your date wasn't my friend. He said he was NOT going to follow in his father's chosen occupation and dead people freaked him out. That's his story and I believe him. He also has a very hot and alive wife and kids that don't appear to be stuffed. I think I'm safe.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats-H.L. Mencken
I know angel-i and Dr. D. I am going to have creepy nightmares now. Once, I had a drunken makeout session with a boy who I was later told liked to f*ck the dead bodies in his father's funeral home! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I kissed him!?!?!?!?!?****************************1/20/09
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Snowpiece, I remember that story from somewhere. I can't remember where, because I tried to forget it! Lovely. :-/
And the hat does a nice job covering up the craniotomy stitching they did on him. I hope the anal screw they inserted in him held tight. Three days upright might account for some leakage. This stuff is completely freaky compared to the Gunther von Hagens Bodyworks (plastinated bodies creatively displayed) show I went to. That was cool! Totally recommend it!
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats-H.L. Mencken
@snowpiece:
What I want to know is: just how mentally incompetent does one have to be to judge a guy like that mentally competent? Wow.
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I can only find pictures of the girl twin.
M.E. refresh so you can see my new avie, just for you......it's temporary, LOL, if I leave it up for too long it might start to smell
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snowy - I'm gonna barf. That corpse looked like some sort of fucked up clown. And I HATE clowns!
UGH! Creepy!
Seriously, I might just remember the story of good old Doc Tanzler every time I feel like snacking.
Being the *cough* lovely lady I am, I will keep my distance from elderly doctors, thanks very much. *whizzes off on her electric wheelchair*
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EWWWWWWWW. I have goosebumps, and NOT the good kind.
M.E.: yes , he did sexy times with her rotten body
Though not reported contemporaneously, research (most notably by authors Harrison and Swicegood) has revealed evidence of Tanzler's necrophilia with Hoyos' corpse.[1][3] Two physicians (Dr. DePoo and Dr. Foraker) who attended the 1940 autopsy of Hoyos' remains recalled in 1972 that a paper tube had been inserted in the vaginal area of the corpse that allowed for intercourse
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In April, 1933, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from the mausoleum, carted it through the cemetery after dark on a toy wagon, and transported it to his home.[1] Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris. As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos' hair that had been collected by her mother and given to Tanzler not long after her burial in 1931.[3] Tanzler filled the corpse's abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Hoyos' remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfume, disinfectants, and preserving agents, to mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse's decomposition.[5]
In October, 1940, Elena's sister Florinda heard rumors of Tanzler sleeping with the disinterred body of her sister, and confronted Tanzler at his home, where Hoyos' body was eventually discovered. Florinda notified the authorities, and Tanzler was arrested and detained. Tanzler was psychiatrically examined, and found mentally competent to stand trial on the charge of "wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization."[1] After a preliminary hearing on October 9, 1940 at the Monroe County Courthouse in Key West, Tanzler was held to answer on the charge, but the case was eventually dropped and he was released, as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired.[1][3]
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Wait, wait, wait....I didn't read that he made a vajayjay for her? OMFG!
Really?
Carl Tanzler - Ok, I just wiki'd that shit. What a GD freak!!!!!!
Gross.
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Submitted by iHeartHaters on August 19, 2008 - 5:44pm.
*urk* At least I will not be eating dinner tonight. My diet is progressing well!
Seriously?? Keeping a slut for 7 years and putting a tube in her vajayjay to screw it!? O.M.G. *screams*
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Submitted by snowpiece on August 19, 2008 - 1:07pm.
M.E. who is that? Knowing you it's some rock guy who I am clueless and unaware of his hotness. Do you see the picture with me in it or just a guy on his own? Cuz I changed it today. If I'm in the pic that's Phil Keogan fron The Amazing Race.
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LOL. Matt Sorum is the drummer for Velvet Revolver/Camp Freddy. Yes, a rocker. LOL.
Yeah, bitches got me on lockdown lol. I'll bet you got a good welcome back! Sorry I missed it, so...
w00t!! SNOWPIECE!!!! *whistle!!* ;)
Snowy "something new" bwahahahahaa!! Congrats gf! That was most excellent. Where have you been? Me, I'm like Blaaaaaaaaaake, incarcerated, only I get to go home at 5:00 lol. Bosses tightened down on my ass.
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OT This is why I want to be burned up when I go. Nobody's drawing sharpie mustaches on me!
Ummm...why does he need glasses?