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Laughing in the face of death is often ‘just what the doctor ordered’ because humor can be a powerful weapon against grief—and one widow’s wise-cracking obituary went viral because we all want that prescription.
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The devoted wife in Omaha, Nebraska, chose to transform her despair into an affirmation of giggles in the epitaph she wrote for her “dead sexy husband”.
Crystal and Eric Sauser were married for 13 years until on February 26, Eric lost a two-year battle with cancer.
One of the things Crystal holds most dear about her husband Eric was his uniquely warm and quirky sense of humor. When it came time to write his obituary, the standard death notice templates just wouldn’t do. She needed something less-than-grave.
Deciding to depart from convention, Crystal penned an elegy that instead spoke to the exceptional kind of man Eric truly was. “His departure was just in time for him to make his spiritual appearance at every Red Sox spring game,” she observed. “If you knew Eric, you knew you were loved, and there is a good chance he told you that—probably sober, but maybe not.”
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Wife’s Humorous Obituary For Late Husband Goes Viral – ‘Cause of death: being dead sexy’
Crowd shot by Christin Noelle
The devoted wife in Omaha, Nebraska, chose to transform her despair into an affirmation of giggles in the epitaph she wrote for her “dead sexy husband”.
Crystal and Eric Sauser were married for 13 years until on February 26, Eric lost a two-year battle with cancer.
One of the things Crystal holds most dear about her husband Eric was his uniquely warm and quirky sense of humor. When it came time to write his obituary, the standard death notice templates just wouldn’t do. She needed something less-than-grave.
Deciding to depart from convention, Crystal penned an elegy that instead spoke to the exceptional kind of man Eric truly was. “His departure was just in time for him to make his spiritual appearance at every Red Sox spring game,” she observed. “If you knew Eric, you knew you were loved, and there is a good chance he told you that—probably sober, but maybe not.”
Continued below.
Wife’s Humorous Obituary For Late Husband Goes Viral – ‘Cause of death: being dead sexy’
