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Inside New Orleans extreme embalming funerals, posing the dead like they are still alive
www.vice.com ^ | 7/30/18 | Drew Schwartz

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 snacks—Doritos and root beer—within reach. And that’s just how his family wanted it.

(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: creepy; dontplaywiththedead; ilovethedead; livingdeadgirl; mortality
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Creepy, no other way to describe it in my mind. This actually started in post civil war America when families did this with dead members but actually posed live family members with the dead some times, just like some sort of family reunion. Pictures available on the internet.
1 posted on 07/31/2018 12:54:05 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

New Orleans has always been weird. Voodoo.


2 posted on 07/31/2018 12:55:41 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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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.


3 posted on 07/31/2018 12:56:26 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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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


4 posted on 07/31/2018 12:56:43 PM PDT by NEMDF
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5 posted on 07/31/2018 12:57:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Midwesterner53

Macabre paganistic defilement.


6 posted on 07/31/2018 12:57:49 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.ith the solar)
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To: Midwesterner53

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.


7 posted on 07/31/2018 12:58:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Was done back in the Victorian era, too:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581


8 posted on 07/31/2018 12:58:59 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Mostly an “AMISH” thing I see.


9 posted on 07/31/2018 12:59:23 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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bfl


10 posted on 07/31/2018 12:59:30 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Midwesterner53

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.


11 posted on 07/31/2018 12:59:48 PM PDT by FrankR (IF it wasn't for the "F-word", and it's deritives, the left would have no message at all.)
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To: Midwesterner53

Maybe they have already worked on Ginsburg.


12 posted on 07/31/2018 1:00:02 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Body art. Reflective of today’s worldview.


13 posted on 07/31/2018 1:02:03 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Midwesterner53

Murkan funeral customs are weirder than what the Egyptians practiced.


14 posted on 07/31/2018 1:02:45 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear (AND)
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To: Midwesterner53

Bkmrk.


15 posted on 07/31/2018 1:07:00 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

He’s dead Jim


16 posted on 07/31/2018 1:09:46 PM PDT by bert
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To: Slyfox

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.


17 posted on 07/31/2018 1:12:04 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.)
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Running into a lot of liberals thinking about Justice Ginsburg and taxidermy, are ye?


18 posted on 07/31/2018 1:13:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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LOL


19 posted on 07/31/2018 1:14:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Midwesterner53

Whatever. As long as they keep voting for Democrats I don’t anybody much minds.


20 posted on 07/31/2018 1:14:50 PM PDT by Obadiah
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