Have you ever wondered what your funeral would be like, or who might attend? Well, a curious Brazilian guy faked his own death to find out. Baltazar Lemos, 60, from Curitiba Paraná, announced his death on social media and held a fake funeral for his friends and family.
In the details, according to what was reported by the British “Daily Mail”, the 60-year-old Brazilian Baltazar Lemos angered his friends and family, after he faked his death out of pure curiosity, to know who would attend his funeral.
As an arranger of funerals in Brazil and conducted hundreds of them, Lemos thought about the number of his friends and family who would come to see him off when he died, so he decided to fake his own death to see how many people would attend his funeral.
He recounted how sad he was after he conducted funeral services attended by only two people compared to other funerals attended by more than 500 people.
So, just like on the Friends TV show where Ross Geller staged a fake funeral to see which of his old college classmates would show up, Lemos played the trick to see who showed up, with disastrous results.
And someone wrote on social media a message announcing that Baltazar Lemos had passed away to another life with a photo taken in front of the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, indicating that the ceremony was accepted there, so everyone assumed the worst.
The Lemos family was shocked by this announcement, as no one knew he was in the hospital. One of his nephews ran to the hospital to ask about him, but the staff had no record of Balthazar Lemos entering there in the past few days.
When Balthazar’s online friends began sharing the news of his death, people began expressing their grief in the comments and asking about the cause of death. No explanation was given, and the time and place of the ceremony and funeral were posted on the funeral service’s Facebook account.
Friends and family of Balthazar Lemos gathered in a chapel in his hometown of Curitiba for what they expected to be a funeral.
And Balthazar’s voice began to tell his life, and those present began to cry, thinking that it was a recording, then he opened the doors of the coffin and went out in front of everyone.
And as soon as he made it clear that he had faked his death to see who would attend his funeral, those present began to accuse him of being a fool.
His mother, who is in her 80s and confined to a wheelchair, was present at the ceremony.
