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Rest in- actually, how about a game of Hold ‘Em first?
I’d like to think that whether I’m buried or turned into ashes when I pass I’m going to come back and haunt everyone because what else is there to do in the afterlife? But I’d also like to think that when I pass my corpse won’t be propped up anywhere like the man below was.
The family of 31-year-old Henry Rosario Martinez, a poker fanatic from Puerto Rico, thought it would honor his sudden passing by having him embalmed and dressed up, and then sat at a poker table.
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“I want him to be remembered as a happy person because he was always like that,” his mother Sonia stated. I mean, he doesn’t exactly look happy, although maybe he’s just wearing his best poker face.
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Henry was sat at a table as friends and family not only played poker around him, but took pictures with him. The staff at Eternal Light Funeral Home in Barceloneta wasn’t freaked out by the request because they took it “as something normal,” and that’s only because “they have done these things in other parts of the world.”
Well, my grandma likes to watch HGTV and remind me I’m not married yet, but something tells me I won’t be embalming her and propping her up to do just that.
Take a look at the video below to see more of Henry play poker posthumously:
Via NY Daily News
