Metallica helps give Rivera a fitting sendoff

He came from a village in Panama, where fishing was a way to make a living.

And Mariano Rivera, like others before him, appeared destined for a fisherman's hard life.

It was the dangerous work for his father, Mariano Rivera Palacios, whose brother Miguel died in a hospital after injuries at sea. Miguel was lashed by ropes that broke loose from a hydraulic mechanism used to reel in nets.