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Post by natalie on Mar 21, 2016 12:10:23 GMT -5
Cosmopolitan March 21, 2016 The San Juan, Puerto Rico, funeral director of Marin Funeral Home has been honoring families' requests for nontraditional embalmments for their loved ones. Damaris Marin most recently helped a family honor Fernando de Jesús Díaz Beato, 26, by making him look alive and sitting him on a chair from his mother's house at his funeral.
Beato's sister Lhizz Diaz Beato told BuzzFeed News the family wanted to remember Fernando as "happy" and "active" after he was shot and killed outside their home on March 3. Police have not yet determined a motive for the shooting.
Marin told BuzzFeed she's done nine other nontraditional funerals like Beato's and that while she's received criticism for it, "if that's something that the family wants, why wouldn't you do it?" BuzzFeed also reports Beato's mother went from crying to being happier when she saw her son sitting upright in the chair at the funeral. She remarked that it looked like the "same son that he was," Diaz Beato said. Attachments:
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Post by catherine on Mar 22, 2016 12:34:19 GMT -5
As soon as I saw this headline I knew that the family would be Puerto Rican. One Puerto Rican family had their son embalmed and posed on a friggin' motorcycle.
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Post by amaleen6 on Mar 25, 2016 12:20:43 GMT -5
One had theirs standing in the corner of a boxing ring, complete with gloves. Different strokes, I guess.
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