Son organises 50 pole dancing girls on jeeps for father's funeral
Here’s one way to be remembered.
A Taiwanese politician has been given a final farewell in the form of a street procession, with 50 bikini-clad women dancing on top of colourful jeeps.
76-year-old Tung Hsiang’s two-hour long funeral procession was organised by his son who said his father “enjoyed a buzz.”
"He told us he wanted this through a dream two days before the funeral”, his brother Tung Mao-hsiung told local news channel CTS.
While it is uncommon to see pole dancers at a funeral procession in Taiwan, hiring of exotic dancers is not a new practice.
In parts of China, people have hired strippers at funerals, with the aim of attracting a larger crowd. It is believed in some Asian cultures that the gathering of a large crowd honours the dead.
However, Chinese officials have clamped down on such events in recent years, launching a campaign in 2015 to put an end to such shows at funerals.
So a quiet dignified exit it is, then.
Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.
