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Dead Taxi Driver Victor Perez Cardona Is Placed At The Wheel For His Wake

Dead Taxi Driver Is Placed At The Wheel Of His Cab For His Wake
Sara C Nelson
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A taxi driver who lost his battle with cancer has been immortalized behind the wheel of his cab at his wake.

Victor Perez Cardona had told his daughter Generosa Perez that he wanted to do “something different”, El Nuevodia reports.

In honouring that wish, the 73-year-old was placed in his Toyota Corolla, and some mourners chose to be photographed riding in the cab alongside him.

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Victor Perez Cardona takes his last fare

Cardona’s body was placed on display in a Puerto Rico funeral home until his burial on Monday. Mashable writes a floral wreath lay in the back seat of the cab - his final fare.

It’s not the first time a wake has featured a deceased in this somewhat unusual manner.

Last year mourners attending murder boxer Christopher Rivera arrived to find him posed afoot, a yellow hood on his head, and wearing sunglasses and blue boxing gloves.

The Puerto Rican fighter’s family honoured his dying wish by propping up his corpse in the corner of a fake boxing ring to memorialise his career.

Dead taxi driver at the wheel
Puerto Rico Taxi Wake(01 of06)
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People attend the wake of taxi driver Victor Perez, whose body is propped up inside his taxi in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Perez Cardona, 73, a cancer patient and a veteran taxi driver known in the town of Aguas Buenas as 'VitÃn the driver', joined the curious tradition of wakes unusual to honor his profession being veiled as if he were driving his taxi. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Puerto Rico Taxi Wake(02 of06)
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The body of Victor Perez is propped up inside his taxi during his wake in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Perez Cardona, 73, a cancer patient and a veteran taxi driver known in the town of Aguas Buenas as 'VitÃn the driver', joined the curious tradition of unusual wakes to honor his profession being veiled as if he were driving his taxi. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Puerto Rico Taxi Wake(03 of06)
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Rafael Perez Cardona, looks his brother Victor Perez Cardona, whose body was propped up inside his taxi in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Perez Cardona, 73, a cancer patient and a veteran taxi driver known in the town of Aguas Buenas as 'VitÃn the driver', joined the unusual tradition of wakes to honor his profession being veiled as if he were driving his taxi. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Puerto Rico Taxi Wake(04 of06)
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The body of Victor Perez Cardona is propped up inside his taxi during his wake in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Perez Cardona, 73, a cancer patient and a veteran taxi driver known in the town of Aguas Buenas as 'VitÃn the driver', joined the unusual tradition of wakes to honor his profession being veiled as if he were driving his taxi. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Puerto Rico Taxi Wake(05 of06)
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People attend the wake of taxi driver Victor Perez Cardona, whose body is propped up inside his taxi in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Perez Cardona, 73, a cancer patient and a veteran taxi driver known in the town of Aguas Buenas as 'VitÃn the driver', joined the unusual tradition of wakes to honor his profession being veiled as if he were driving his taxi. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Puerto Rico Taxi Wake(06 of06)
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The body of Victor Perez Cardona is propped up inside his taxi during his wake in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Perez Cardona, 73, a cancer patient and a veteran taxi driver known in the town of Aguas Buenas as 'Vitn the driver', joined the unusual tradition of wakes to honor his profession being veiled as if he were driving his taxi. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (credit:Ricardo Arduengo/AP)
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