Excuse the awful title, I was trying to be clever, but nothing was happening.

So check out this dude:

A little weird, driving indoors and everything, right?

Except that that's totally a corpse, and he's at one of the weirder funerals I've ever heard of.

The good news is, this set's precedent -- why stick your loved ones in a lame old box when you can be having them do awesome stuff? I'm working on a shortlist of ways I'd like to be presented at my funeral.

• Sitting in my underwear, eating Fruity Pebbles. This one's probably the most lifelike, and also among the more unsettling. I'm guessing my family will pass on this one.
• Playing a guitar, one foot on the edge of the casket, possibly throwing up horns. They'd have to figure out how to get me to stand up (complicated wire system), but it would be totally worth it.
• Just sitting in a chair in the corner. Preferably near a table with some food or something.
• One arm frozen in mid-air, giving a sideways hug, while the other arm points at the person next to me. That way, you could just sidle up to my dead body, have a picture taken like we're chums, and move on. Now that's a unique funeral memento!

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