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Death and Funeral
"What do you mean she's breathing?" the woman's stunned mother asked officials, hours after she was told her daughter had died.
"Tell me how to grieve when we're not permitted to have a funeral... when the precious body of my child disappeared into the back of a funeral home minivan, never to be seen again."
“He wanted to make sure my [mom] would be laughing leaving the cemetery, not crying,” his daughter told HuffPost.