A grieving widow was filmed twerking on her deceased husband’s coffin during a funeral in Mexico, as mourners clapped along to reggaeton music and wore T-shirts printed with a photo of the deceased
A mourning widow was captured on camera twerking on her late husband’s coffin during an extraordinary send-off ceremony.
Bewildering footage reveals several tearful mourners applauding to reggaeton music while donning T-shirts bearing a photograph of the departed. Two gentlemen in baseball caps were spotted rapping into microphones alongside the open casket, with the deceased’s head clearly visible through the viewing window.
The late gentleman’s grieving wife was observed gyrating her hips against the casket’s edge as fellow mourners encouraged her enthusiastically. She subsequently raised one leg, then the other, onto the coffin, before thrusting her hand skyward to the pounding rhythm of Nicky Jam and Daddy Yankee’s 1999 track “En La Cama”.
Noticeably emotional, the widow continued twerking before beckoning another woman to “perform” against the casket in Mexico.
The remarkable footage was uploaded by Peruvian performer Cristian Huancahuari, who performs under the moniker “El Cangri del Callao”.
He captioned the post: “Fly high, my uncle Jean ‘Ñanga’.”
Huancahuari is recognised for providing private performances at wakes and funerals as an unconventional method of celebrating the deceased with happiness.
The footage has accumulated millions of views since being uploaded on Saturday (27 June), according to creatorzine. com.
One observer commented: “Dancing reggaeton while you cry is on another level.”
Another penned: “What a beautiful way to say goodbye to someone. He must have been someone who found joy in the saddest moments, and that’s how they honoured him.”
And a third quipped: “There’s more atmosphere here than at my aunt Marisol’s wedding.”
Meanwhile, a funeral erupted into mayhem when the deceased tumbled out of the coffin’s base as it was being transported to its final resting place.
The corpse dropped onto the earth in plain sight of horrified mourners. In the startling footage, bearers were observed transporting the casket across a grassy area before the bottom evidently gave way.
The body crashed to the ground as witnesses shrieked in horror. The bearers frantically tried to place the body back into the coffin, briefly stopping the service amid scenes of alarm and bewilderment. The botched funeral occurred in Guyana, the sole country in mainland South America where English is the official language, on May 24
The footage became viral on Facebook with 450,000 views and over 1,000 comments. One person said: “I don’t want to laugh but the laugh comes out!” “Did they use the wood from that little bridge to make the coffin or what?” joked Vishal.
Another person added: “In all my 50-plus years in Guyana, I have never seen a dry-rot casket; no matter how cheap the coffin is, it never falls apart.”.
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