YouTuber Rosanna Pansino, 39, fulfilled her late father’s last wish in an unconventional way – by smoking his ashes. The online personality, boasting a fanbase of over 14 million subscribers, documented the act for the first episode of her new podcast series, ‘Rodiculous’.
In the episode aptly named ‘Smoking my dead dad’, she opened up to her followers about her father’s tragic passing five years prior, following a six-year battle with leukaemia. Blood Cancer UK describes Leukaemia as a type of blood cancer that impacts cells in the bone marrow, typically affecting white blood cells.
Symptoms of leukaemia can vary, but some common signs include:
- tiredness that lasts a long time and doesn’t improve with rest
- bruising and bleeding more easily
- repeated infections and high temperatures (fever)
- unexplained weight loss
- swollen lymph nodes (glands in your neck, armpit and groin)
Rosanna described her father as a “badass” and “quite a little rebel”, stating her desire to emulate him. “And I will be following in his footsteps, like father like daughter,” she declared.
She then delved into the story of her dad’s final request to her and her mother. “Before he passed, he told me and my mum what he would like us to do with his ashes,” she continued, reports Gloucestershire Live.
Despite her mother’s initial hesitation, Rosanna conveyed that after five years, they felt it was the right time to fulfil her father’s wishes and honour him as he had desired.
Rosanna, a licensed marijuana grower in California, smoked cannabis grown from soil mixed with her late father’s ashes, according to the Mirror. The internet sensation posted a video on Instagram of herself smoking, accompanied by a touching 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. So that’s what I did. The first episode of my new podcast is dedicated to him… Love and miss you every day Papa Pizza.”