The obituary of a lifetime goes viral

If there’s one time you shouldn’t have to beat around the bush, it’s when you’re dead. At least that seemed to be the sentiment for one Colorado man, who’s raising eyebrows for his not-so-subtle final words.

“He enjoyed booze, guns, cars and younger women until the day he died,” reads the Denver Post obituary for Michael “Flathead” Blanchard.

And his cause of death? The obit attributes his maker-meeting moment to being “stubborn, refusing to follow doctors’ orders and raising hell for more than six decades.”

Fair enough.

The obituary then lists his late cat “Chopper” as his son, says someone named “Baba Yaba” can “kiss his butt” and notes that his childhood friends are predominantly “criminals, prostitutes and/or Democrats.”

While all the hell-raising surely didn’t help, his family told the Post “Flathead” actually died of natural causes. And, no, the obituary is not some cruel final jab by the family. They say the words are mostly Flathead’s.

(Excerpt) Read more at hlntv.com …

via The obituary of a lifetime goes viral.

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