Posted on 07/31/2018 12:54:05 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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 snacksDoritos and root beerwithin reach. And thats just how his family wanted it.
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New Orleans has always been weird. Voodoo.
I have thought about getting placed on my side with my hands up near my face so it will really look like I and sleeping.
Do you suppose they could prop all of us FReepers up, mouse in hand, FR on the screen? HA In the middle of a FReepathon? LOL
Macabre paganistic defilement.
They did this on Kolchak: The Night Stalker where one criminal had the dead around a dinner table.
This is creepy. They had some of the pictures on Yahoo. Just weird.
Was done back in the Victorian era, too:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581
Mostly an “AMISH” thing I see.
bfl
It’s the ultimate creep-out. And, quite disrespectful to boot.
They pose these individuals based on a premise they hate in real life...stereotyping. They stereotype what the deceased loved to do in life, for what s/he was known for, and posts them that way for burial.
I remember seeing one guy astride a Harley-Davidson, and wondered, “Did they bury the Harley with him, or was it just for show.”.
Symbolism over substance.
Maybe they have already worked on Ginsburg.
Body art. Reflective of today’s worldview.
Murkan funeral customs are weirder than what the Egyptians practiced.
Bkmrk.
He’s dead Jim
I have thought about getting placed on my side with my hands up near my face so it will really look like I and sleeping.
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I want “Pop Goes The Weasel” played at my funeral, with everyone looking at the coffin.
Running into a lot of liberals thinking about Justice Ginsburg and taxidermy, are ye?
LOL
Whatever. As long as they keep voting for Democrats I don’t anybody much minds.
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