A New Orleans woman went out with a bang earlier this month — and her two daughters chose to throw her a party like it was 1999.
Miriam Burbank, 53, died on June 1 — but you wouldn’t know it from the beer, whiskey and menthol cigarettes surrounding her at the Charbonnet Funeral Home.
Her daughters wanted to show how Burbank lived life to the fullest, and what better way than with a case of Busch, a fifth of whiskey and a disco ball to set the mood.
Burbank even managed to show her New Orleans Saints pride with black and gold nail polish.
But she is not the first person to be given a posthumous celebration into the afterlife.
In April, New Orleans philanthropist Mickey Easterling was given a party that would make Jay Gatsby jealous.
More than a thousand people attended Easterling’s funeral, where she lounged on an iron bench like a 1920s socialite. She held a glass of champagne in one hand and a cigarette holder in the other, reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
“It’s like something out a department store window in New York on 5th,” says Sammy Steele, who did Mickey’s hair and makeup. “No stone was left unturned for this memorial.”