Fernando de Jesus Diaz Beato, 26 was killed recently when he was shot 15 times. His family wanted to remember him the way he was in life, so they had the mortician fix him up so he could sit in a chair with a cigarette in his hand, his favorite clothes on, sitting cross legged……………….with his eyes open. I don’t know about you, but this is just too weird for me.
From The Daily Mail:
‘Everybody is really surprised because seeing him like that is like seeing him as if he were alive,’ one of Diaz Beato’s sisters said in a video obtained by Live Leak.
Another sister, Ihizz Diaz Beato, said: ‘We decided to embalm him like this because he was a very happy person, very active and we want to remember him as he was.’
The final effect was if Diaz Beato was sitting and staring at the family and friends who gathered at the funeral.
Marin Funeral Home, in Rio Piedras, has become something of a pioneer of such services in San Juan.
This is the ninth unconventional funeral they have done – but the first where the eyes of the deceased have been left open.
https://youtu.be/8KppWGV9s-s
