What would you expect from a surprise birthday party? Lots of people jumping out and yelling ¡®Happy Birthday¡¯,lots of wine, cake and maybe some dancing, right?? Butthis one guy decided to veer away from the usual birthday party and decided todo something rather dark.
Instead of a birthday bash, the man decided to throw hishusband a surprise funeral gathering!
Eli McCann's husband, Skylar Westerdahl, came up with the quirky idea to throw him a funeral, because he felt that peopleshouldn't have to die in order for their friends to say why they loved them.
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Skylar decorated a friend's house for the occasion, creatinga fake casket made out of an ironing board and pillows.
He also hung up photos of Eli around the place and arrangedfor all of the guests to dress in black, reports the Mirror.
"In 2017 my husband (then boyfriend) threw a surprisefuneral for my birthday because 'people shouldn¡¯t have to die in order fortheir friends to gather and say why they loved them," Eli tweeted while postingpictures of his funeral.
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"He told me we were going to a nice dinner so we neededto dress up. Twenty minutes later we arrived at a friend's house where I couldsee that all the windows were blacked out with curtains, which I thought wasodd. He said we needed to stop inside and say hello so I got out of thecar," Eli told Mirror.
To make the occasion look realistic, Skylar instructed theguests to ignore Eli so that it appeared that he was attending his funeral as aghost.
Eli was left "speechless" with his partner'screativity.
"After I realized they were ignoring me, I just sat onone of the chairs and watched the service. It was so charming and funny andmorbid and I loved every second of it," he said.
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The funeral service lasted for about 30 minutes and featureda slideshow of photos set to the Bette Midler classic, Wind Beneath My Wings.
There was also a reading of an obituary written by hiscolleague Meg Walter, and his mother had helped make a programme.?Following the service, there was a regular party wherepeople stopped pretending they couldn't see Eli.
"It was so perfect," he said.