Dead Man buried propped up on his motorbike.

[NYCe]

This is great.

YouTube- el muerto en motora (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbpy0DWp1Co)

[lovesall]

Wow how interesting!!! It gives me an idea to be buried with my first car the 87 Thunderbird.

[hwbs]

little creepy....

[flabbybody]

When I saw that pic in the Post I got very scared

[NYBURBS]

Hey what the hell, better than laying in a box waiting to rot.

[alyssats]

scary for me :/

[DL_NL]

Glad he's not a bus driver.

[Richctdude]

weird...!!!!!

[russtafa]

like a viking funeral

[thx1138]

Maybe he's the latino equivalent of the dead man who rode the NYC subway for 14 hours before someone discovered he was dead. (the headline was "dead man riding". I wonder what keeps el muerto's head from falling down. rigor mortis?

[ptyseminole]

That's fucked-up...

[Caff_Racer]

That's fucked-up...

+1 : putting Repsol Honda team colours on an old CBR 600F is lame :lol:

[Coroner]

lmao, what a legend...... if I was at his funeral, his pals would shoot me for laughing or I´d die from laughing to death......

[scubaman]

Anyone remember this one

Link (http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/02/11/2009-02-11_burning_smell_fails_to_tip_off_driver_wh.html)

[BLKGSXR]

Yeah basically embalming the body is a bit creepy but that bike looks awesome :D

[Helvis2012]

To each his own.....

[slikrickdalicka]

apparently the motorcycle guy ws not the first in puerto rico to do this....he copied off of this dude in puerto rico who asked to have him standing up instead of in a coffin...sorry that it is in spanish



YouTube- muerto parado en puerto rico (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZXY3Cip_FA&feature=related)

[SarahG]

I wonder what keeps el muerto's head from falling down. rigor mortis?

Rigor mortis is a temporary state, stiffs don't stay stiff forever.

Usually when a corpse is processed for viewing the body is altered to make it more eye-friendly. The mouth is wired shut so it can't fall open during the viewing or handling. The eyelids are sewn or glued shut. They probably put a stiff wire inside him to keep his head position still. Would have been simple enough to do.

As far as displays go its pretty tame. There's a monastery in, IIRC its in Italy, where the monks became so good at preserving corpses that they started putting them on display instead of burying them. People eventually caught on and started leaving wardrobe instructions with the monks so that their outfits will be changed periodically for special occasions and things like that as if the corpses were mall manicans. Imagine having that job.