The funeral of Miriam Burbank
In the picture you see Miriam Burbank, sitting at a table, holding a menthol cigarette in her hand. She's dead, and this was the scene at her recent funeral. More info at wgno.com.
Of course, we've seen this kind of stuff before here at WU. Back in 2008, there was a post about Ángel Pantoja Medina "standing tall at his funeral." And also from 2008, a post about the Kuku Kuku of Papua New Guinea who pose their dead sitting up. So perhaps posed corpses at funerals is a phenomenon that is "no longer weird."
Of course, we've seen this kind of stuff before here at WU. Back in 2008, there was a post about Ángel Pantoja Medina "standing tall at his funeral." And also from 2008, a post about the Kuku Kuku of Papua New Guinea who pose their dead sitting up. So perhaps posed corpses at funerals is a phenomenon that is "no longer weird."
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For years, I have threatened my in-laws that if they hold an open-casket viewing for me, I'll sit up. Maybe I need a better threat.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 06/13/14 at 11:55 AM
The Irish do this all the time, don't they?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 06/13/14 at 12:01 PM
To be followed by the movie "Weekend at Miriam's"
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 06/13/14 at 01:22 PM
It's all fun and games until something falls off.
Posted by KDP on 06/13/14 at 02:43 PM
Definitely not something new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450832/Victorian-photographs-relatives-posing-alongside-dead-bodies.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450832/Victorian-photographs-relatives-posing-alongside-dead-bodies.html
Posted by JeffRaven on 06/14/14 at 05:57 AM
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