Walter George Bruhl Jr., Marine Corps veteran and longtime DuPont Co. employee, passed away in Florida Sunday at 80 years old, and on Tuesday, the Cape Gazette published a hilarious obituary that he wrote for himself.
The Philadelphia native who lived and worked in Delaware jokes that now his wife can purchase the mink coat he never let her buy because he thought “only minks should wear mink.”
Here are other funny lines from the write-up, which is going viral after his grandson Sam Bruhl posted it on Reddit, USA Today reports:
TIME has also rounded-up other famous last words that have gone viral in recent years, from Waffle House’s most loyal customer to the man whose final request was that, in lieu of flowers, people write their members of Congress and petition for a repeal of Daylight Savings Time.
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