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  • Inside New Orleans extreme embalming funerals, posing the dead like they are still alive

    07/31/2018 12:54:05 PM PDT · by Midwesterner53 · 49 replies
    www.vice.com ^ | 7/30/18 | Drew Schwartz
    Two weeks after Renard Matthews was tragically shot and killed in his New Orleans neighborhood, the 18-year-old looked exactly how he had in life. At his wake, he lay slumped in an office chair in front of a TV "playing" NBA2K with his hands wrapped around a PS4 controller. Clad in sunglasses, socks and flip-flops, and a Celtics jersey, he even had his favorite snacks—Doritos and root beer—within reach. And that’s just how his family wanted it.