A young man’s wish to remain standing in death has been fulfilled. Through a special embalming treatment, Angel Pantoja Medina, left, remained upright in a corner at his mother’s home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for his three-day wake. Here, family members bid goodbye to the 24-year-old Monday.

“He wanted to be happy, standing,” said Medina’s brother, Carlos, right, who’s kissing his cheek. The owner of the funeral home that did the embalming said Medina’s mother asked him to fulfill her dead son’s last wish.

Medina was dressed in a brown Yankees baseball cap, T-shirt, sunglasses, and a gold cross hung around his neck. He was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.