Widow hires strippers to gyrate at husband’s funeral

One grieving widow has decided to give her deceased husband a send-off to remember after hiring strippers to entertain guests at his funeral.
Dressed in underwear and thigh-high boots, the exotic dancers gyrated around Mr Jian's coffin to Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger in front of shocked mourners.

The woman claimed that her husband had an eye for the ladies and wanted to arrange for these drop-dead gorgeous entertainers to lift the mood of the sombre occasion.

Attendees at the funeral were left open-mouthed, with many vying to capture footage of the event on their mobile phones.

The strippers performed for three songs during the ceremony, which included a number of dance hits.

Taichung Funeral Home in Taipei, Taiwan was turned into a makeshift strip-club, during the bizarre ritual, which made headlines all over the world.

Friends of the deceased say that Mrs Jian was an extremely devoted and understanding wife who cared for her husband, and was at his bedside every day before he finally died of a stroke.

The trend for exotic strippers began in the 1980s and is linked to the Taiwanese mafia, who, it is claimed took control of the mortuary industry and offered strippers from their clubs at a discount.

In keeping with tradition, the strippers arrive on the neon-lit back of a diesel truck, known as an electric flower car and perform erotic dances in front of the mourners.

The cars are also used as useful getaway vehicles, should police arrive upon the scene. 

The service eventually concluded with a drumbeat as the attendees brought the coffin to the gravesite, according to a report which appeared in The People's Daily Online.

Although some have dubbed the practice as obscene, others say that it is just another way to give people the ultimate send-off.