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YouTuber Rosana Pansino fulfills her father’s ‘unusual’ dying wish

YouTuber Rosana Pansino launched her podcast “ROdiculous” with an unusual first episode titled “Smoking My Dead Dad,” last November 17.

On her Instagram page, the American YouTuber posted a clip from the episode with a caption, “We lost my dad about 5 years ago to Leukemia. He was the best. His dying wish was to be grown into a cannabis plant and be smoked.”

 

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Pansino shared that 5 years ago before her father passed on, he told her and her mother that he wanted them to mix his ashes with some soil and grow a marijuana plant.

“My dad was a badass and quite a little rebel, and I will be following in his footsteps, like father like daughter,” she said on the video.

The YouTube baker also mentioned how her YouTube representative even advised her not to pursue the topic of the episode.

This information has taken aback several social media users, sharing their own opinions on the unusual dying wish that was fulfilled.

There seems to be some misunderstanding that circulated, majorly influenced by wrong captions saying Pansino smoked the ashes directly, which would be unhealthy and also not the case.


The content creator addressed this by uploading a short video and images when she was planting the cannabis plant on the mixed soil with her father’s ashes.

In the first episode of her podcast she also talked about dealing with grief along with a guest David Kesler who was an international grief expert.

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