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15th Apr 2015

Video: Widow in Taiwan hires strippers to dance around her husband’s coffin at his funeral

What a way to go.

Conor Heneghan

What a way to go.

As much as funerals are meant to be a celebration of a life lived, most of the time they are understandably sad affairs because of the outpouring of grief from friends and family of the deceased.

A widow in Taiwan was keen to ensure her late husband enjoyed the best possible send-off over the weekend, hiring a number of strippers to dance around his coffin having noted his taste for beautiful women when he was alive.

What a woman.

If seeing scantily-women dance around a coffin while Maroon 5’s ‘Moves Like Jagger’ isn’t for you, then the video below is best avoided.

It didn’t seem to bother the mourners, however, some of whom even filmed it on their smartphones.

According to PzFeed, exotic dances at funerals in Taiwan is a tradition dating back to the 1980s and is a practise associated with members of organised crime syndicates.

Somehow we can’t see it taking off around these parts anytime soon.

Video via YouTube/Dieu Hoang

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