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— -- With a glass of Busch beer, a menthol cigarette and a New Orleans Saints themed manicure, Miriam Burbank attended one last party – her funeral.
Burbank was posed sitting at a table in a living room setting, with a disco ball glittering overhead to set the mood for her final fete.
The Louisiana woman's daughters, who called her 'Maw Maw' told ABC News' New Orleans affiliate WGNO that it was the perfect send-off for their vivacious mother.
Louisiana seems to be the place for 'extreme embalming.'
In April, Mickey Easterling, a New Orleans socialite who passed away at the age of 83, was celebrated one last time at a grand memorial service, where the flamboyant philanthropist wore a pink feather boa and held a glass of champagne.
Famed jazz musician 'Uncle' Lionel Batiste's body was propped up at a funeral home as mourners said goodbye to the New Orleans legend.
The Marin Funeral Home in Puerto Rico has created thematic wakes for several funerals, including a slain boxer and a deceased man who loved his motorcycle.
Caleb Wilde, a sixth-generation mortician in Parkesburg, Pa., who tweets and blogs about the industry, said 'extreme embalming' is on the fringe of the industry.
'Most funeral homes, the most extreme thing they might do is dressing the deceased in shorts,' he said, 'so it’s a very rare thing.'
If asked, it's something he would be willing to consider to help someone fulfill their final wish. However, Wilde estimated it would take 'quadruple' the typical number of hours to prepare such a unique funeral experience.
'It would mean we would have to change how we embalm a person. We would likely have to use a harder fluid so the body would stay stiff in that position and [the person would] have to be embalmed in the position they would be viewed,' he said. 'If we were given that request, it would certainly be something we would take a hard look at.'
Steve Jobs’ Last Words Were a Warning About the Pursuit of Wealth-Incorrectly Attributed!
Summary of eRumor:
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ last words were written in an essay in which he called himself a “twisted being” who had foolishly dedicated his life to the pursuit of wealth.
The Truth:
Steve Jobs’ last words were not written in a deathbed essay about wealth and happiness.
The essay, which was written by an unknown author, was falsely presented as Steve Jobs’ last words as he lay dying from pancreatic cancer in 2011. An excerpt of the so-called Steve Jobs’ last words essay reads:
I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success.
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However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to.
At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.
In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of god of death drawing closer…
Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth…
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Should be something that is more important:
Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days
Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.
The author of that essay isn’t known, but it has been falsely attributed to Steve Jobs on many blog and social media sites across the Internet.
But accounts of Steve Jobs’ final moments by his family members and by biographer Walter Isaacson make no mention of a deathbed essay or final words uttered by Steve Jobs about the dangers of a life devoted to pursuing wealth.
Steve Jobs’ sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, recounted the Apple co-founders final moments in a eulogy that was published by the New York Times at the time of his death in October 2011. In the eulogy, Simpson recalled Steve Jobs’ final words and his final hours:
He seemed to be climbing.
But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.
Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.
Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.
Steve’s final words were:
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
Also, a profound deathbed essay written by Steve Jobs about the life, death and the pursuit of wealth would have been highlighted in “Steve Jobs,” the definitive biography written by Walter Isaacson. No such essay is mentioned in the book.