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Strippers dance around coffin

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  • Published Apr 16, 2015 5:05 pm KST
  • Updated Apr 16, 2015 5:05 pm KST

A Taiwanese widow has hired strippers to dance around her husband’s coffin.

A YouTube video shows two women dressed in black underwear dancing to Maroon 5’s “Moves Likes Jagger”.

The man’s family and friends take out their phones out to record the bizarre performance.

The widow said her husband was a “lady’s man”, so she hired the strippers as a final “gift” to him.

Funeral strippers have been around in Taiwan since the 1980s. They are seen as a way of enticing more people to a funeral, where the number of mourners equates to the honor given to the deceased.