Standing Room Only At Angel Pantoja Medina’s Wake
ANGEL Pantoja Medina is dead.
That’s him leaning on the wall for his three-day wake.
Angel Pantoja Medina is dressed in a Yankees baseball cap, sunglasses and baggy pants.
And right it is that a young blade should be on the bleeding edge of fashion.
Lillian McIntyre’s nurses started the tend and now the 24 year old former Puerto Rican has bitten the fashion bug for new angles in death.
Says his brother (alive): “He wanted to be happy, standing.”
But who’s happy standing, when you can sit?
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December 21st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
you people need to have respect. this poor guy died
really young. i think this is pretty neat. i’ve never seen
anything like this before.
this was the kids dread/wish to do when he dies.
you people who are saying”he’s a wanna be this and that”
are the ones acting really childish. GROW UP! have some respect.
this was the kids last wish and here you are
making fun of it. what if that was one of your parents,friends, or kids
dream/wish to do that?! i bet you wouldn’t be thinking it
was stupid then huh?! exactly. have some freaking respect.
that’s the main thing the inlife that you are tought.
i wish the best for the family. don’t let anyone let
you think that he had a crazy idea. he did something that
no one else had ever thought of.
<3
September 18th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I agree that is really sort of creepy and odd. Some people request to be burned and have their ashes scattered, some request to be buried, some to be frozen.. I guess this is just another different sort of request. I think the whole idea of him holding his crotch and wearing sunglasses is a bit much- although I guess they wanted to remember him exactly how he was. I mean, in the grand scheme of things…who cares?! He died, he stood at his wake, and now he is buried somewhere. The story ends. Move on.
And to elcoco26- In America, we don’t go to a funeral, then have a “dinner party”. It’s a gathering for the family and friends to all get together and mourn together, and reminiss about the deceased. Ok, so there’s food. People get hungry. You think during the 3 day wake, no one in that house ate?
Tootles from NY!
September 5th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
This is truly againbst the norm of any type of society……………i agree to complyuin with the wishes of family and friends when they die but i also beleive that their is a definate line that one should not cross.that being said i think that the widespread postings of these pictures on the internet are what is truly sick and disgusting.If u are to keep your family meber of friends wishes in relation to a death wish that out of the ordinary that is you but by publicising it you are opening up yourself to public scri=utiny and disapproval…!!!
August 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I guess if this trend becomes fashionable, maybe we have some weirdo who wants to be standing naked with his organ up for everybody to see he is still standing…..
August 27th, 2008 at 9:16 am
With all due respect,especially to the Mom,casket is so we see them sleeping eternally,how could you function ,cook,clean,or even think seeing him standing there knowing ,he’s not .I pray for you ,if you would ‘ve seen him in a casket it would break your heart,but you would see him sleep in your mind ….
August 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am
“fuck all you gun-toting hip-gangsta wannabes… learn to swim.”
Only in today’s screwball world would a person purposefully ask to be memorialized by being stuffed and mounted in gangsta trend fashion and holding his crotch for all the world to see. And to all you idiots who think this is honorable, I HAVE respect for the dead, which is why I think this is stupid and corny. What a fraud. Yay, TUPAC!
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
dat wasssup ”t says” lol but this was his wish r.i.p angel dat niga gangsta dat really was up and all yall haters your jus mad cause u did not think of it first they should put a sweet in his mouth
Mand A
Er,ok
August 21st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Well I guess if that is what he wanted his family to do for him then they should go by his wishes. I think it is stupid though and very corney but aparently he wanted to be the first one to invent a dead man still standing so let it be.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:36 pm
WOW!!!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:55 am
do you think he will have Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing” at his wake….??
August 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
AS FOR ALL OF U. WHO DOESN’T HAVE RESPECT FOR DEAD.JUST READ THE NEW’S.HE REQUEST THIS TO HIS MOM .ALL OF U ARE ASSHOLE.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:07 am
SWEETS UR RIGHT CUZ I DAMN SURE WUDA BEEN SPOOKED HELL I WUDA WENT IN THERE AND LET OUT A SCREAM
August 20th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Mandingo you have no respect for the dead. I hope when a family member of yours die, you will be the first to hear the disrespectful comments from the visitors. Regardless of how good or how bad of a person he was. You are in no place to talk shit about someone you don’t know.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
What the hell is the difference whether your sitting, standing or lying down like a vampire in a coffin. Your just mad cause you didn’t do it first.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Man..this is puertorrican “mafia-wannabe” crap, what a sorry ass…
Sending a message to his enemies? Well, I guess his enemies (the ones that popped a cap on his sorry ass) are…. well….NOT DEAD!!!!
I hope these kids would get a fucking life and stop trying to live a gangsta life….
Clueless fuckers, wannabes….
my 2 cents…
August 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
This is for Hardcore,
In P.R. relatives stay awake all the time the body is in wake and 3 days is the norm…I found strange how here in America, after the burial, everyone goes back to the house of the deceased for dinner party… Weird huh?? But yes..I agree with everyone’s comments…
August 20th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
What some people doesn’t understand it’s that he was sending a message to his enemies… Saying FU A holes you won’t see me down… Even dead I’ll remain standing.. Kind of weird but hey, he’ve been on the news all over the world…
August 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
THIS IS THE CRAZIEST SHIT I’VE EVER SEEN/ HEARD OF WTF WAS THEY THINKING TO HONOR THIS? AND TO HAVE HIM IN THE HOUSE FOR 3DAYS? WHAT IF HE WAS TO FALL? THEN HE’S LIKE STANDING BEHIND A WALL I KNOW HE SPOOKED A FEW FOLKS THAT WASN’T EXPECTING HIM RIGHT THERE….NO WAY LAY MY ASS DOWN
August 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
HAHAHAHAHA!
I’ve officially seen it all. How the hell do you sleep in a house knowing that dude is propped up on the wall, DEAD? I guess different strokes for different folks.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Cuckooclam! He’s been stuffed. Taxidermed!
August 20th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I want to know how they managed to keep him upright after the rigor mortis had gone.
Veins full of quick setting concrete? or a plain and simple stick?
August 20th, 2008 at 6:09 am
This is even more sick than having stuffed birds and stags heads and tiger-skin rugs in the library!
The Commentariat Party does not see this as a sensible and dignified way to handle a corpse!
August 20th, 2008 at 5:58 am
I’d attach strings to him, hide in the ceiling and have a bit of fun with any visitors.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:14 am
wtf??om my gosh..that is fucked up..
..lol..looks like hes holdin his crotch though =D
August 19th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
And why sit when you can lie down?
On the other hand, cutting edge is cutting edge…