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Corpse kept upright for 3-day wake in Puerto Rico (AP)

The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina, left, stands leaning against a wall during his wake as unidentified people attend his wake in his mother's home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.  The last wish of Medina, 24, who was found dead on Aug. 15, 2008 underneath a bridge in the capital, was to be  standing at his own wake, and was embalmed for the occasion. (AP Photo/Juan Alicea Marcado, El Nuevo Dia)AP - A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing ? even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.

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