the way to go out~~

[Lady Cop]

see that guy standing there? he's dead.

that's how it's done in New Orleans!
how are you going?












Wake held for Lionel Batiste

'You have to think outside the box. And so he’s outside the box. We didn’t want him to be confined to his casket.'
Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band, died of cancer on July 8. He was 81.

in life



NOLA.com

[ramseycat]

That is cool!!

And maybe a little creepy.

[QueenBee]

I think if I walked into his wake, not knowing he was going to be STANDING THERE I probably would have shit, and then dropped dead myself.

[Lady Cop]

some of the guests initially thought it was a wax mannequin. boy were they surprised!

[QueenBee]

LC, is there any mention of what that is in his hand, in the closeup? My first thought is that it was a small speaker with his voice coming out, which would totally up the creepy factor

[Lady Cop]

it's his trademark whistle.

[QueenBee]

OK..I did take a second look and I thought it was something like that.
I still say nothing beats a New Orleans wake.

[username]

I plan on being cremated and I don't want ANYONE except the person who shoves me in the oven seeing my dead body.

My grandmother died at 99 and requested a closed casket. My uncle disregarded that and invited a few people to visit her. I declined but against my advice, my sister went. She came out shaken and said "that's not grandma" or something to that effect. Duh. My dad started changing within 20 minutes of his death; I know they clean people up but yeah, not in to the whole viewing thing. Never been to one.

[Lady Cop]

these corpses have been dug up as part of a bizarre local ritual in a village in Indonesia that involves giving decomposed corpses a new look.
Family members of the deceased exhuming their ancestors' bodies and change their clothes as a way of remembering them. They then walk the dead around the village, almost like zombies.The ritual, called Ma'nene, happens every three years to honour the villagers' love for the deceased. It is carried out in the Toraja district of Indonesia's South Sulawesi Province.

[OnBendedKnee]

Cool way of taking the bummer out of death really.

[Carsman]

The one holding the stick, doesn't look so bad.

[Duchess]

Whatever floats their boat but it creeps me da hell out.

[Riotgear]

I am SO THERE. Fuck yes I'll help.

[Donovan]

Weekend at Burmese.

Oh come on, SOMEone was gonna say it.

[Riotgear]