The rise of bizarre 'extreme embalming' trend where dead bodies are arranged in lifelike poses so they can attend their own funerals
MIRIAM Birkbank is sat at a dining room table with a can of her favourite beer and a pack of cigs... but the 53-year-old isn't enjoying a relaxing evening at home after a long day's work.
In fact, she's dead - and her rigid body has been dressed up, contorted into position and put on display at the request of her family.
This is extreme embalming - where bodies are preserved by injecting them with a chemical fluid which makes them totally rigid - before being displayed in bizarre real life positions.
Corpses are forced into position by having their feet nailed to the floor, poles erected behind their necks - and even their limbs prised apart.
The demand for it is growing, with more and more people paying around £2,000 to have their loved one brought back to life for 2-3 days before the funeral takes place.
(Renard Matthews was embalmed and posed up in front of his Xbox after he was shot)
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Henry Rosario Martinez, 31, was positioned at a poker table for his funeralCredit: Channel 5
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Musician Lionel Batiste was arranged standing up for his funeral in New OrleansCredit: Channel 5
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