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During the last few weeks of his life, 50-year-old Puerto Rico resident Renato Garcia took a shine to wearing the costume of DC Comics character Green Lantern after finding it in a bag of donated clothes. Unfortunately, Garcia passed away on Monday because of what Huffington Post reported were “respiratory issues.” Given Garcia’s attachment to the costume, his family was inspired to dress him up as the superhero for his wake held in his sister’s San Juan apartment. Although Garcia didn’t leave any instructions for his funeral arrangements, his family is pretty confident that he wouldn’t mind being last seen in the costume to which he had grown so attached.
Although he presumably didn’t fight crime, Garcia was considered something of a superhero to his loved ones.
“He was always very helpful,” his sister, Milagros Garcia, told Puerto Rican newspaper, Primera Hora. “You beckoned and he was always there.”
According to New York Daily News, posing the deceased upright and in a manner that is representative of their interests is a tradition gaining popularity in Puerto Rico. In 2014, professional boxer Christopher Rivera was propped up in the corner of a boxing ring and dressed in his fighting gear after his murder. The practice isn’t entirely unheard of in the continental U.S. either. Just last year, New Orleans socialite Mickey Easterling specifically instructed her family to make sure she looked just as fabulous in death as in life by displaying her with a cigarette holder, champagne flute, and a brooch emblazoned with the word “bitch.”
No comment from me is necessary here. But one question:
what superhero costume would YOU like your corpse to be dressed in and propped up in public?
10 comments:
I don't know, is there a costume where my belly would be less conspicuous than in a suit jacket? Because that's where I'd encourage my family to start. Maybe one of those '90s costumes, with all the trench coats and pockets...
Meanwhile, can we talk about the fact that there's got to be some nerd who just discovered that his costume did not "get lost at the dry cleaner" like his significant other said...?
Looking forward to the super-puke take. Seemed like a lazy idea when I heard about it, but I haven't read the story and maybe your insight can sway me...
Deadman. Think about it.
Jamie Madrox.
Jamie Madrox.
Booster Gold.
DUH!
We were just going to put your ashes in a little Skeets-shaped holder, Josh.
Something with a cape, that's for sure. I don't care what Edna Mode says, capes are stylish.
Dude, I would totally go for a Skeets urn!
Time to update the will.
Uh, Dogwelder!
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