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At wake, dead teen is posed playing video game

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If the idea of open caskets at funerals is upsetting to you, you may not care much for what may well be a new way saying "goodbye" to the departed: staging them.

At a wake on Sunday, a New Orleans family had the funeral home stage Renard Matthews, 18, in a chair, "video game controller in hand, surrounded by his favorite snacks, and his beloved Boston Celtics on the television screen," WGNO TV reports.

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Family of Renard Matthews.

Temeka Matthews, his mom, said that her son was a big fan of Celtics guard Kyrie Irving.

Matthews was shot to death last Monday.