Cenk Uygur
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Family Embalms Loved One To Look Alive At His Funeral
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March 20, 2016
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6:28Now PlayingA family in Puerto Rico embalmed a young man, who was killed in a shooting, to make him look alive. This is becoming a trend in San Juan, at a funeral home who calls the practice “standing funerals.” Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“A family in mourning often shows grief in surprising ways. But the family of Fernando de Jesús Díaz Beato, a 26-year-old man who was tragically shot and killed outside of his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, chose to honor him how he lived — literally.
The family chose to honor Beato’s vibrant life through services with the Marin Funeral Home in San Juan, a business known for its nontraditional funerals.
The funeral home has been a pioneer in muerto parado, or “standing dead,” services since 2008. That year it hosted its first nontraditional funeral. At the request of the family, it tethered the body of 24-year-old Ángel Luis “Pedrito” Pantojas, another murder victim in Puerto Rico, to the family’s living room.
“When he died, the family told us they would like him to be standing up,” Damaris Marin, the home’s director, told BuzzFeed News. “We thought that it was a joke. Then his mom came to the funeral home and we realized it was serious.”
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