A 26-year-old Puerto Rican man, named Fernando de Jesus Diaz Beato, has gone viral after a unconventinal funeral was held for him.
Mr Beato who was shot a staggering 15 times in San Juan earlier this month, has captured the world’s attention after photos of his rather unconventional funeral appeared online recently. Mr Beato has got everyone talking after his family decided to give him a rather unusual send off instead of being placed in a more traditional coffin. The heartbroken family of the recently deceased Mr Beato instead decided to pay for an extravagant embalming process which allowed them to place him in his favourite chair with his leg crossed, whilst being dressed in what was apparently his favorite outfit, and also holding a cigar in between his fingers.
The funeral home even went to the effort of leaving Mr Beato’s eyes open as a surprise fir his grieving family. According to local media reports one of Beato’s sisters, Ihizz, said that they “decided to embalm him like this because he was a very happy person, very active, and we want to remember him as he was,” and added that the family “didn’t want to see him lying in the coffin.”
Apparently, Beato’s this sort of ceremony was the ninth unconventional funeral held at Marin Funeral Home in Rio Pedras, Puerto Rico, but the first where the deceased’s eyes were open.