26-Year-Old's Family Had Him Embalmed to Look Alive for His Funeral

[AdamSmith]

Stranger than fiction. But why not?

 

26-Year-Old's Family Had Him Embalmed to Look Alive for His Funeral

From Cosmopolitan

 

 

The San Juan, Puerto Rico, funeral director of Marin Funeral Home has been honoring families' requests for nontraditional embalmments for their loved ones. Damaris Marin most recently helped a family honor Fernando de Jesús Díaz Beato, 26, by making him look alive and sitting him on a chair from his mother's house at his funeral.

 

Beato's sister Lhizz Diaz Beato toldBuzzFeed News the family wanted to remember Fernando as "happy" and "active" after he was shot and killedoutside their home on March 3. Police have not yet determined a motive for the shooting.

 

Marin told BuzzFeed she's done nine other nontraditional funerals like Beato's and that while she's received criticism for it, "if that's something that the family wants, why wouldn't you do it?" BuzzFeed also reports Beato's mother went from crying to being happier when she saw her son sitting upright in the chair at the funeral. She remarked that it looked like the "same son that he was," Diaz Beato said.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/style/26-olds-family-had-him-134958564.html

[caliguy]

They used to take family pictures with the dead. They'd be all dressed up and upright for a family portrait. It was seen as normal.

[jjkrkwood]

I would think it would be much more difficult for the family to have closure with this approach. It's evading the fact that the individual is deceased.. Perhaps its just me, but I would prefer the more traditional approach so that I can try to move on with my life. But I suppose its whatever gives you comfort in this situation.

[AdamSmith]

I don't even like open-casket visitations. But many do.

[marylander1940]

Stranger than fiction. But why not?

 

26-Year-Old's Family Had Him Embalmed to Look Alive for His Funeral

From Cosmopolitan

 

 

The San Juan, Puerto Rico, funeral director of Marin Funeral Home has been honoring families' requests for nontraditional embalmments for their loved ones. Damaris Marin most recently helped a family honor Fernando de Jesús Díaz Beato, 26, by making him look alive and sitting him on a chair from his mother's house at his funeral.

 

Beato's sister Lhizz Diaz Beato toldBuzzFeed News the family wanted to remember Fernando as "happy" and "active" after he was shot and killedoutside their home on March 3. Police have not yet determined a motive for the shooting.

 

Marin told BuzzFeed she's done nine other nontraditional funerals like Beato's and that while she's received criticism for it, "if that's something that the family wants, why wouldn't you do it?" BuzzFeed also reports Beato's mother went from crying to being happier when she saw her son sitting upright in the chair at the funeral. She remarked that it looked like the "same son that he was," Diaz Beato said.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/style/26-olds-family-had-him-134958564.html

 

here yinz have more pics...

 

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2568081.1458236890!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/puertorico-oddly.jpg

 

 

http://www.eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Fernando-de-Jes%C3%BAs-D%C3%ADaz-Beato.jpg

 

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/44/54/36/9619331/3/920x920.jpg

 

I would think it would be much more difficult for the family to have closure with this approach. It's evading the fact that the individual is deceased.. Perhaps its just me, but I would prefer the more traditional approach so that I can try to move on with my life. But I suppose its whatever gives you comfort in this situation.

 

I agree with you 100%, to each his own...

[AdamSmith]

The little cigarillo in his hand is a nice touch.

 

Maybe I should be interred clutching a short snort of Drambuie.

[bigvalboy]

The little cigarillo in his hand is a nice touch.

 

Maybe I should be interred clutching a short snort of Drambuie.

 

We all grieve differently. For myself, funerals are about closure, so if this is what gives their family closure, then God bless them.

 

I want to be interred clutching a simple but elegant string of white pearls.

[Guest countryboywny]

I agree with you 100%, to each his own...

 

It pushes the limits of my sensitivity, but, yes, "to each his own.."

[+ purplekow]

As long as you were aware before going in, the family's wishes are just that. If you are unaware going in, you could definitely be freaked out.

When my wife passed, I had a closed casket viewing. Some family members asked for the coffin to be open for a brief time prior to the burial. I complied, and those people, mostly older, seemed to get solace from seeing the body.

[jjkrkwood]

We all grieve differently. For myself, funerals are about closure, so if this is what gives their family closure, then God bless them.

 

I want to be interred clutching a simple but elegant string of white pearls.

 

 

Oh my dear Annie....So subliminal.... We all know THIS is really the Pearl necklace you want before your interment.

 

[bigvalboy]

Oh my dear Annie....So subliminal.... We all know THIS is really the Pearl necklace you want before your interment.

 

 

LOL....Well I did say "simple but elegant"