San Juan, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rican taxi driver Victor Perez Cardona’s final fare was highly unusual: a wreath of flowers for his own funeral.
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Honoring his final request, the body of the 73-year-old, who died of cancer, was propped in the seat of his taxi cab, hands locked on the wheel, as if to drive himself to his funeral. A wreath of flowers was in the back seat of the vehicle parked at the funeral home.
Friends and colleagues mourned the man who had driven a taxi for the last 15 years of his life.
“This is a funeral of the people. People have come from all over the island. Some climbed in the taxi with him,” said his daughter Generosa Perez Torres.
His body was displayed Sunday and he was buried on Monday.
Since 2008, Puerto Rico has developed a tradition of odd wakes, including a young man mourned seated on his motorcycle, a boxer standing in the ring and an 80-year-old woman sitting in her favorite rocking chair and wearing her old wedding gown.
Dont know if I should laugh or cry from this stupidity.
They should Bronze him and put him in the center of town
Intesahnt!
While I understand the goyishe concept of a wake (seeing the body provides closure, reduces denial, etc.) this is gruesome.
Is he part of Uber?
Creepy.
I’m sure many non Jews feel that many of our customs are creepy, gruesome, insane and stupid. Perhaps all of you should not throw stones since you live in glass houses.
What in the world is this doing on your siTe?
Baruch she’lo asani goy.
There seem to be a significant number of readers who would prefer not to see detailed pictures of a corpse, such as the pictures in this story. If VIN would respect their wishes by indicating under the headline that the story (and like other stories) contains explicit content, they would much appreciate it.
Be thankful he wasn’t a proctologist.