article_snippet.sent: Taichung Funeral Home in Taipei, Taiwan was turned into a makeshift gentleman's club when the dance music began pumping and neon lights started flashing as the girls went through the girls moves on the morning of April 12.
article_snippet.sent: The Taiwanese phenomenon of having exotic dancers or strippers perform at funerals began in the 1980s and is thought to be connected to the local mafia who were said to have seized control of the mortuary industry and offered strippers from strippers clubs at a cut price.
article_snippet.sent: In Taiwanese culture, the more people who attend the funeral then the more honour was given to the deceased.
article_snippet.sent: The funerals also provide one of the few forms of live entertainment for many of the rural poor communities in Taiwan.
highlights_snippet.sent: Tradition for exotic dancers at funerals began is linked to Taiwanese mafia .