his family said he was born to run, but is this really how he was meant to meet his maker? twenty-two year old david morales colon was murdered last week and to "honor" his passion of motorcycling, his family enlisted the help of san juan's marin funeral home to embalm colon's body, dressed in shades and blue jeans and prop him on his honda cbr600 for the duration of his three-day wake.
this isn't the marin funeral home's first foray into this unorthodox type of wake. in 2008, they embalmed the corpse of another young shooting victim, 24-year-old angel pantoja medina and displayed his body standing up for his multi-day wake in his mother's living room. medina's brother told a local newspaper that his brother had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: "he wanted to be happy, standing."
my point, and i do have one...is that everyone is entitled to be celebrated in death in their own way, but is this a celebration of their life or just plain creepy? why not go the extra mile, take the corpse to a taxidermist and have them propped up on a bike or in their mom's living room eternity? what is your point? i know you have one!
