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.”
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.
this is honestly based, he wanted to pass on into a plant that could help people after he’s gone and it’s so metal to blow out a smoke cloud and say hey dad 😭
— vexie 合༄ (@nyanrachas) November 18, 2024
smoking your dad is CRAZY work 😭
— alex 𐚁 (@beyblonded) November 18, 2024
Never thought her friendly cake baking channel was hiding a bad bitch https://t.co/4iTpRgipjp
— 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐥𝐱 ♡︎ (@ruanrexic) November 18, 2024
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.
Rosanna Pansio reveals she’s smoking her dad’s ashes in new Instagram story:
“His dying wish was to be grown into a cannabis plant and be smoked. So that’s what I did.” pic.twitter.com/LsSCujZBMG
— Pop Base (@PopBase) November 18, 2024
I truly wish people actually LISTENED to the podcast. His ashes were mixed in with the soil that the plant was grown in. She is not smoking his ashes directly, but they directly contributed to the plants growth. It’s a beautiful sentiment for a wonderful father.
— Adeline 🖌✨📝 (@AddyAddyO) November 18, 2024
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.
There is some misinformation circulating online. Just wanted to clarify. I did not smoke my dad ashes directly. You should never smoke ash!
My fathers ashes were mixed into soil in which a cannabis plant was grown. I smoked the cannabis plant. 🌱 💕 pic.twitter.com/4spxelMLH1
— Rosanna Pansino (@RosannaPansino) November 19, 2024
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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