Buried on his Harley

Billie Leo Standley died last weekend from lung cancer, but before he died, the 82-year-old wished for the world to know he was going to ride off to heaven. To accomplish this wish, Standley and his family made arrangements for him to buried in a Plexiglas casket riding his 1967 Harley-Davidson

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Standley had long told people he wanted to be buried on his bike, and he began making arrangements several years ago, long before he was diagnosed with lung cancer this past Christmas. The first step was to purchase three burial plots next to where his late wife Lorna was interred. The space was necessary for the 9 foot by 11 foot casket he needed to hold his Harley.

The casket was completed about five years ago, and it sat in Standley’s garage where he was eager to show it to visitors.

 “If you stopped by his house, he showed you his casket,” Roy Standley tells the Daytona Daily News. “He was proud of it.”