Man Standing for His Funeral Dressed in Green Lantern Costume
Renato Garcia, 55, of Puerto Rico, recently died and was embalmed in such a way that he could be stood up. He was then dressed in a Green Lantern costume. This isn’t the first time the Marin Funeral Home has done some exotic embalming jobs. They’re responsible for an embalmed boxer in a boxing ring, the embalmed motorcyclist on a motorcycle, embalming a grandma in her rocking chair and now the Green Lantern:
Via The Daily Mail (the news source with the utmost journalistic integrity)
The man’s corpse was not only upright but was surrounded by flowers as he stood in the suit complete with the Green Lantern power ring.
She said: ‘He did have really bad asthma and was regularly getting oxygen in the local hospital. He used to turn up there as well with his Green Lantern costume.
‘When he died it was the thing everybody was talking about, and so we thought it was obviously so much a part of him that we decided to bury him with it.’
She added: ‘In keeping with the Puerto Rican tradition of embalming bodies for funerals, there was no point in burying him in the suit if nobody saw that he was wearing it, and therefore he was put on display in the funeral hall.’
Here’s a video that has bit more detail:
