So a guy named Dan, no relation, got a terminal diagnosis, and he was a planner, apparently.

So he called a local funeral home and started planning his own funeral.

And he wanted very basic pine casket.

He was being buried in our local cemetery.

He was a veteran.

So he wanted military honors.

And then he said, Heather, I want to conduct my own funeral. And I just kind of, you want to conduct your own funeral? How are you going to do that? Do you know something? The rest of us don't?

And he's like, no, I want to videotape myself conducting and officiating my own funeral.

And I thought, you know what? I love this idea.

And I was like, Dan, you need to do this.

I love a unique funeral.

Heather Hill is a funeral director in Raleigh, North Carolina.

She helped Dan record himself as the MC.

He had the whole order of service mapped out. He knew who was going to speak, what songs

were going to be played. So he had an opening, and he popped up on the screen, and he said,

hey, I bet you didn't expect to hear from the dead guy.

And I wasn't able to be at the funeral, but the whole funeral was recorded.

So I could see heads turning to look at each other and people gasping, like they didn't expect to see him pop up on the screen.

Right.

And then he said, I have this casket here. I have markers because he had an unfinished pine casket.

And he's like, kiddos.

And anybody who wants to, please come up.

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