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A British woman's funeral featured a rather unsettling 'special guest' in the form of a friend whom she enlisted to dress up as the Grim Reaper. The delightfully dark joke reportedly unfolded at the services for Sharon Taffs in the community of Maldon last month. The idea for the unlikely attendee, daughter Louise Miller explained, came about while her mother was meticulously planning her funeral and a friend suggested that he appear wearing the macabre costume to warn the mourners that they were next to be visited by the proverbial angel of death. Possessing something of a wicked sense of humor, Taffs found the idea to be fantastic and insisted that they go through with the gag.
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