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  • Harley Burial: Man is Buried on Harley Motorcycle

    An 82-year-old man from Ohio had his last wishes granted when he was buried on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. While it isn’t unheard of for people to be buried with personal objects, not only was Bill Standley buried with his Harley, he was buried sitting on top of it wearing his riding gear.

    According to Dorothy Brown, Standley’s daughter, her dad first mentioned being buried with his Harley about 18 years ago. “He said, ‘What am I supposed to do, I’ve got two sons, only got one bike.’ My sister just off-handedly said, ‘Oh dad just be buried with it,’” said Brown. “I think it was about two weeks after that that it really hit him, what a great idea. And we all just like, ‘Dad!’ And he goes, ‘No that’s how I’m going out!’ We all still thought he was kidding. 18 years later, guess what.”

    Standley was buried with his 1967 Harley in a custom casket on Friday. The Plexiglas casket Standley was buried in was built by his two sons years earlier. According to his sons, their father loved to take guests out to his garage and show off the casket. “If you stopped by his house, he showed you his casket,” Roy Standley said.

    Brown said that Standley wanted all of his family and friends to see him take his last ride, and his kids made sure it happened. “If we had ever asked dad anything in his lifetime, something special, dad would do his best to do it for us. So this is all we could do for him. Some people walk through the pearly gates, some people ride,” said Brown. Check out a picture of Standley’s last ride below.

    Here is a closeup of Standley on his Harley in the casket before his burial:

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    As strange as the Harley burial might sound, this isn’t the first time someone has made a rather peculiar last request. When country music legend Jimmy Dean died in 2010, he was buried in a grand piano tomb. Even stranger, rapper Tupac Shakur was cremated and members of his rap group Young Outlawz said they smoked his ashes.

    Images via YouTube

  • Harley Burial: Deceased Man Rides Motorcycle As Last Wish

    “He’d done right by us all these years, and at least we could see he goes out the way he wanted to,” Pete Standley said in regards to the funeral of his deceased father, whose body was perfectly placed on top of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle inside a casket.

    Yes, you heard right.

    Billy Standley last request to his family was to bury him with one of the things that kept him young and adventurous over the years: his blue 1967 Electra Glide motorcycle.

    Dressed in a  black leather outfit with a white helmet and clear glasses, the 82-year-old lifeless rider would have been proud to know that he was finally granted what he wanted the most, “to ride off to heaven” in a big see-through box.

    The Ohio-native died from lung cancer and was laid to rest Friday 24 during an outside funeral procession.

    Prior to his death, Standley anticipated the thought of knowing that his family and friends would someday see him fixed on one of his most prized possessions.(image)

    An 18-year-long burial idea, which then manifested into an actual project, set in the garage of his home for five years.

    Standley’s two sons, Pete and Roy, helped build the Plexiglas casket made of wood and steel.

    His family said that he was very proud of his customized casket and used to show it off to visiting guests.

    “He was a quirky man,” daughter Dorothy Brown told Dayton Daily News. “But when it comes to us kids, he loved us, he raised us well and, of course, we wanted to help him.”

    Vernon Funeral Homes Inc. told the newspaper that although this is the company’s first extreme personalization, they were able to accommodate the dimensions of the grave to fit the size of the casket.

    However, this is not the first time the deceased has bid ‘farewell’ in-style, and quite frankly, it appears that personalized funerals are more common than before.

    The corpse of former Puerto Rican Boxer Christopher Rivera Amaro, who was murdered at 23, was standing straight up in a ring during a wake service Friday.

    Maybe TLC’s over-the-top theme show, “Best Funeral Ever,” is to blame for this unusual trend?

    OR…

    Maybe families rather remember the fondest characteristics and moments of their loved ones by exhibiting them as they were alive?

    Here is a list by Urlesque.com detailing some of the most rare funerals and caskets.

    What are your thoughts?

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  • Srebrenica Massacre Victims Finally Laid To Rest

    In July 1995, more than 8,000 men and boys, all belonging to the Muslim minority, were killed. The incident occurred at the height of the Bosnian War and is widely considered to be the worst genocide to occur in Europe since World War II.

    The attacking forces unceremoniously placed the bodies of the slain in unmarked mass graves around the edge of the town, and many of them remained unfound until recently.

    Nothing can ever erase the terrible memory of the Srebrenica Massacre or fill the emptiness in the hearts of the survivors, but as reported earlier today, they may be able to take another step toward healing the wound.

    More than 400 victims that were recently discovered in a mass grave were laid to rest individually in a mass reburial. The ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of Bosnians who came to say a proper goodbye to family members or simply pay their respects to those lost in the tragedy.

    One of the bodies laid to rest belonged to the infant daughter of Hava Muhic. The child was born during the events leading up to the killings and likely died due to the unfit conditions created by the conflict. It took 18 years for Muhic to finally find out exactly where her child had been buried. Now the child rests in a grave marked “Fatima”, the name which Muhic would have given her.

    Over 2,000 victims of the massacre remain missing, but today’s reburial offers some closure for many of those affected by the event.