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My dad lived much longer than he deserved: Family writes savage, brutally honest obituary for kin

The eulogy read in part. “Leslie was surprisingly intelligent, however he lacked ambition and motivation to do anything more than being reckless

Kenyans are known to big lairs, even at funerals. It is common to hear Kenyans glowingly eulogise even the worst of human being, like hard-core gangsters, rapists, thieves and related miscreants. Many other people across the world are fond of the same.

That, however, was not the case with one family in Texas, US. They slammed one of their dead family members in an obituary that has gone viral and arguably the most brutal and honest ever written. And perhaps to prove how fed up they were with the deceased, besides writing the savage eulogy, they refused to hold a funeral to ensure he gets a decent send off.

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