Dad's funeral

My dad was the most amazing person I knew. He had always been one for the outdoors, so much so that he preferred to live outside rather than in a house. I first met my dad when I was 16, I ran into him by chance in Manchester city centre when he asked me for spare change, after a few questions of where I was from and what my mum's name was, he proceeded to say 'Jess put your purse away' after him saying my name I soon found out he was my dad. We kept in close contact and spoke all the time over the phone, I knew that his lifestyle wasn't one many people would have but that's what he chose. I was told last year that he was a little poorly after a tough and cold winter but thought he would be ok, he was my dad, he never got ill. Little did I know just how ill he was, I received a phone call on the 9th of October at 7am off my aunty. She said my dad wasn't too well and we needed to go and see him in hospital, none of us knew he was even in hospital until that morning. Safe to say I had the biggest shock of my life when I saw him that morning, my strong, fearless dad on a life support machine with barley nothing to his always impeccable physique. There was so many tubes and medicines being pumped into him and that broke all of our hearts. The doctors told us that he has liver failure that he couldn't possibly recover from or survive, as a family we had to make the decision to turn off his life support machine, so we got all of the close family members round his bed, I was holding his hand when his machine was switched off, and as the family started to remanice his life and the funny things he did, he passed away so peacefully surrounded by everyone that loved him. My dad had no possessions or savings living on the streets, one thing he had that most people don't is a caring and loving family who supported him even when we didn't agree with some of the things he did, everyone deserves a proper burial and the same goes for him. He was loved as a father and brother, he deserves the same send off that anyone else would have.

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