Each to their own.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/21205076/man-buried-astride-beloved-harley/
A motorcycle-loving man's family has fulfilled his dying wish - to be buried astride his beloved Harley-Davidson encased in a see-through casket.
But it wasn't easy.
The project required an extra-large cemetery plot to accommodate a Plexiglas casket for Billy Standley and his hulking custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide cruiser. Five embalmers worked to prepare his body with a metal back brace and straps to ensure he'll never lose his seat.
Standley's family said he'd been talking about it for years and liked to take people to the garage to show off the unusual casket his two sons had built for him. He told people he didn't just want to ride off to heaven, he wanted the world to see him do it in the big see-through box.
"He was a quirky man," daughter Dorothy Brown said.
"But when it comes to us kids, he loved us, he raised us well and, of course, we wanted to help him."
The Dayton Daily News reported that Standley, of Mechanicsburg, west of Columbus, died of lung cancer last Sunday aged 82. He was buried on Friday.
Newspaper photos of the prepared casket showed Standley with his eyes closed astride the big bike. He was dressed in black leathers, a white helmet and glasses, his gloved hands grasping the handlebars.
Standley told his family his motorcycle helped him retain his sense of adventure after he settled down to raise four children, which was quite a compromise for the man who made his start at 13 as a ranch hand and rodeo rider.
He started the project himself, buying three extra burial plots next to his wife, Lorna. His sons, Pete and Roy, fashioned the casket out of Plexiglas, reinforcing the bottom with wood and steel rods to handle the extra weight.
Enlisting the help of Vernon Funeral Homes, Standley ensured his funeral would be held outside, so all his biker friends could watch his final ride.
His family agreed the processional to the cemetery might be considered a little bizarre, even shocking.
"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.
I recon after my last trade in price i am going to die with my Harley as well..........
G'day,
I would have liked to think that he left his bike to his children.
I just hope no sick fuck digs it up casing a Genny Shovel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHSJ1VYRvM
I like my Harley but not that much I want to be buried with it.
But if that was his last dying wish so be it, let him have his final day of glory RIP
the Gravediggers M.C. will steal his bike . if the Devil don't , you cum in this world with nothink & when he leave's where doe's he thinks he is going to be a member of the fucking GHOSTRIDER's M.C.
