SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Even in death, Christopher Rivera Amaro almost looked ready to box, leaning against the corner of a simulated ring. Mourners who came to his wake in San Juan on Friday found him posed afoot, a yellow hood on his head, sunglasses glasses over his eyes and blue boxing gloves on his hands. Elsie Rodriguez, vice president of the Marin Funeral Home, said Rivera's family wanted to stress his boxing. The funeral home suggested posing him in a ring. The makeshift ring was set up in a community center of a public housing complex. Rodriguez told The Associated Press it took them several hours to create the scene.
The funeral home has staged similar wakes for others. One featured a deceased man riding his motorcycle. The 23-year-old Rivera had a 5-15 record in the 130-pound weight class. Police said he was shot dead Sunday in the city of Santurce. No one has been arrested.
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I was going to go with cremation but now I want an open casket, a morning suit, and a set of nice realistic vampire teeth. Pay extra for the funeral director to put a little smile on my face.
Something like this:
Maybe a white silk vest. Something to catch the light, shine out in the darkness.
And of course play "I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places ... " At the end of the services.
Creamate me in my birthday suit. Donate all my clothes to goodwill or St Mary's ot Big Brothers and Sisters.
No open casket, no sitting there staring at a dead body for a few days. Fry me ASAP. Take all the money saved from not sitting in a funeral home and go have a party. Don't mourn my death, celebrate my life. Hopefully I gave those in my life some good memories of me
rubato--to save money you could just put the suit in the coffin and rig up some sort of mirror to view the empty suit--since we all know vampires have no reflection.
oldr--that's what we did with both my mother and father; not a party, but celebrations of their lives memorials, following direct cremations. The ashes were interred in a memorial garden for ashes in my church, no containers, just ashes in the soil.
In 2006 my cousin (not blood, good family friends) died of pancreatic cancer (47yo). He was creamated within 30 hours and then we had a memorial celbrating his life. His sister put together a really nice slideshow tribute to him. He was an avid fisherman and there were loads of pictures of him fishing. Greatest way to celebrate the memory of someones passing. Afterward we went to a local catering hall and relived, through our own tales, his life.
His ashes are scattered in various places. Some are out in the Atlantic near where he fished many times. Some are buried with his brother who died when both were young and some we are going to scatter in the lake where we have a house up in Pa. We spent many a vacation up on that lake while we were kids (and after we were grown up). We're just waiting for his sister to make the trip east so she can help with the scattering of his ashes. He was a man of many places in his life, so we think it's fitting in his death.
