Few obituaries begin with the words, “I am pleased to announce” – but Amanda Denis believes in blunt honesty.
When the Ontario resident’s estranged father died halfway across the country in B.C.’s Okanagan, Denis felt compelled to share a few choice remarks about the man she describes as a “miserable human.”
The obituary that resulted – which Denis ultimately had to publish on her own, after being rejected by her father’s funeral home – clearly struck a nerve, getting shared thousands of times on social media.
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