When Sandie Wood was diagnosed with tongue cancer in February that soon became terminal, she made a plan.
Ryalls, who met Wood on a pub-darts team, called her the life of the party. She recalled her friend dressing in bright colours and telling animated stories from years spent working as a barmaid in pubs across Bristol. Wood loved shoes and insisted her horse-drawn hearse and coffin be decorated with a collection of stilettos, wedges and studded boots.Article contentThe dance mob that upstaged her funeral almost didn’t happen.
It was also medicine for those closest to Wood. Mark Wood, Sandie’s husband, didn’t know about her outlandish plans either, he told. At the funeral, he was consumed by grief and couldn’t focus. Then the music started playing — Sandie’s music. “I said, ‘Yeah, that’s my Sandie,'” Mark said. “There was a big smile on my face because that was her. She didn’t want me to know that because she wanted to surprise me. And boy, didn’t she do it?”
The funeral lifted Mark Wood’s spirits. Sandie was “one in a million,” he said, and he’s still struggling to sleep since her death. He expressed frustration over the NHS scandal that sickened Sandie. The British government announced in August that affected patients would receive about $122,000 in compensation, but Mark Wood said he wished the government would also apologize.“If she’s up there looking down, she’d be smiling, ” Mark said.
Sandie asked that her loved ones end the funeral by exiting in a conga line, Ryalls said, which everyone happily obliged. After the excitement, she had one final wish: that her funeral make news headlines around the world.Share this article in your social network
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