Smoking Killed Me Funeral
The coffin of life-long smoker Albert ‘Dick’ Whittamore is carried at St Mary’s Cemetery in Dover, England during a burial service Tuesday, after he died in January at age 85 from the lung disease emphysema.
Whitamore’s dying wish was honored with the words “Smoking Killed Me” placed on signs in his hearse and at his graveside, encouraging people to give up smoking.
He wanted the ill-effects of his smoking to act as a warning to others and dictated in his will that the signs be placed inside his hearse as it passed through his home town of Dover.
85 isn’t a bad age all thing considered, is it?
Posted on March 4, 2010 | Filed Under Life
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Guarantee me the ripe old age of 85, and I’ll smoke, chew, snort and GROW tobacco!