
We’d all like to decide how we’re remembered but this Canadian woman wasn’t going to let just anybody write her obituary.
She decided to write it herself.
In the Hamilton Spectator, Sybil Marie Hicks wrote:
It hurts me to admit it… but I, Mrs Ron Hicks from Bayville, have passed away.
The last word. Obit in today’s @TheSpec “I finally have the smoking hot body I have always wanted...having been cre… https://t.co/kaBTNuBMAH— Jim Poling (@Jim Poling) 1549409088
Hicks used her final message to celebrate her husband, who she affectionately referred to as a “Horse’s Ass”, and her children “whom [she] tolerated over the years”.
She also saw the bright side of the situation by joking:
I finally have the smoking hot body I have always wanted… having been cremated.
The hilarious obituary went viral after the editor of the Hamilton Spectator shared it, prompting her daughter to comment on it.
@PolingRecord @ddale8 @TheSpec Thank you for sharing our mother’s obituary. She was an incredible woman! Brenda AKA Hazel💔— Brenda Hicks (@Brenda Hicks) 1549465071
And tributes came in from other users who wished they could have met her.
@PolingRecord @GrantRants @TheSpec She soumds like the kind of person I would have loved to know. RIP, Sybil!— Lexy Cameron (@Lexy Cameron) 1549471027
@PolingRecord @TheSpec What a beautiful person and great Canadian. Making people laugh despite your own suffering i… https://t.co/dhc4rEKQCU— nuns with guns (@nuns with guns) 1549467371
@PolingRecord @TheSpec Sybil, you rocked your obituary.— 🇨🇦🇨🇦Judy Deane🇨🇦🇨🇦 (@🇨🇦🇨🇦Judy Deane🇨🇦🇨🇦) 1549466276
Hicks isn’t the only person to write their own obituary.
Carrie Fisher also left a notable request for how she wanted to be remembered.
Read Carrie Fisher's amazing obituary to herself https://t.co/6xiGbItD6H— The Independent (@The Independent) 1482916143
Sybil says she's now "off to swim to the buoy and back."
She definitely knew how to go out in style.
HT: Mashable