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Ciggie lover lived to 105
The Sun (U.K.) ^
| December 15, 2004
| LUCY HAGAN
Posted on 12/15/2004 3:22:49 AM PST by Stoat
Ciggie lover lived to 105 |
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Life's one long drag ... Marie Ellis puffs away at her nursing home |
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By LUCY HAGAN
CIGGIE-loving Marie Ellis was laid to rest yesterday after living to 105 despite smoking nearly half a million fags.
Marie, who died from heart failure caused by old age, had puffed 15 a day since she was 15-years-old.
The ex-typist was cremated clutching a packet of her favourite Benson & Hedges with flowers in the shape of a cigarette laid on top of her coffin.
Staff and residents from the nursing home she had lived in for the past 15 years sent her off with a rousing version of the song Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
Maria Kallis, matron of Eaton Lodge in Westgate, Kent, said: We all remember Marie for smoking, so we are getting a concrete ashtray out in the garden as a memorial to her.
She smoked right up to the end, having her last cigarette just two days before her death.
![Ashes to ashes ... floral tribute in shape of ciggie](http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004580378,00.jpg) |
Ashes to ashes ... floral tribute in shape of ciggie |
Marie, who never married or had kids, also delighted in an unhealthy diet.
She always had three sugars in her coffee, loved a drop of sherry and scoffed sweets and cakes often refusing to eat savoury food.
But Marie remained incredibly healthy.
She had all her teeth and never even suffered as much as a smokers cough from her ciggies.
Mrs Kallis said: Our doctor used to raise his arms in bewilderment when he came to see her.
Hed say, Dont encourage her but she defied all medical reasoning.
She had a lovely send-off. A couple of people had a smoke outside the chapel in her honour both before and after the service. |
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; health; no1heregetsoutalive; pufflist; smoking
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To: SheLion
41
posted on
12/15/2004 7:06:31 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Boycott Boycotts Warrior. If you aint buying call me!)
To: Kay Syrah
42
posted on
12/15/2004 7:07:02 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Boycott Boycotts Warrior. If you aint buying call me!)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Old is relative. Yes, I am the oldest relative on my side of the family. How did you know? But it was a small family, and I am still young. LOL.
43
posted on
12/15/2004 7:20:27 AM PST
by
Kay Syrah
(nice finish)
To: Marauder
It's interesting how things like that work out. Take my mom's parents, originally from Cuba. My
abuelo (mom's dad) died at age 78 in a nursing home when I was a kid (explaining my deep seated hatred of those places). Up until his last, he was fond of his Cuban cigars.
My abuela (mom's mom), who lived around all that cigar smoke, outlived him by 17 yrs. She passed on peacefully in her sleep last year at age 95.
44
posted on
12/15/2004 7:25:29 AM PST
by
Severa
(I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
To: Kay Syrah
45
posted on
12/15/2004 7:30:13 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Boycott Boycotts Warrior. If you aint buying call me!)
To: Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim
Oh, ol' Lucy Hagan definitely had fun writing this one.
- The heavy smoker was ... was ... cremated! Cluthing a pack of her favorite smokes!
- "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
- And on and on.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
46
posted on
12/15/2004 7:52:48 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(pAye p00r atenShun 2 dEtai)
To: SheLion
I have a friend on Cape Cod who was a CNA. She used to take care of a lady who was paying
huge amounts to live at one of the zillions of assisted living places there. She wasn't allowed to smoke in
her own overpriced apartment.
There's a lot to be said for dying on your own front porch with a rifle across your knees.
To: Stoat
That's impossible. Everyone knows that exposure to even second hand smoke within 100 square feet of the smoker outdoors on a windy day will kill a person within weeks. Those very convincing and truthful commercials told me so.
48
posted on
12/15/2004 12:19:24 PM PST
by
SaveTheChief
("It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." - Senator Zell Miller)
To: Marauder
I definitely think genes have a lot to do with living a long life (or short), regardless of your lifestyle. Both of my grandfathers chewed tobacco, ate food cooked in lard, and generally ate everything the food nazis tell you not to eat, and they both lived into their mid-90's.
49
posted on
12/15/2004 12:27:01 PM PST
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: Conspiracy Guy
I joined the AARP to get the cheaper auto insurance. Turned out to cost $109 per year more than the AAA I have. They spam me every month with all kinds of insurance scams. I see no benefit at all in belonging to this boiler room sales group. I will not be renewing my membership.
If I ever reach the point where I can't take care of myself I will end my own life like a man, not a droolling carcass tied to a chair in a nursing home!
50
posted on
12/15/2004 12:29:32 PM PST
by
mugs99
(Restore the Constitution)
To: Stoat
Everybody has a perfect right to do self destructive things to themselves. Some even get away with it.
51
posted on
12/15/2004 12:41:22 PM PST
by
Protagoras
(Christmas is not a secular holiday)
To: Madame Dufarge
There's a lot to be said for dying on your own front porch with a rifle across your knees. Without a doubt.
I sure pray I never end up in a home. Have the run of your own home, then get too sick to be alone, go to a nursing home, and still wish you were dead.
I couldn't put up with living in a nursing home. And the noise! Those places are so noisy.
52
posted on
12/15/2004 12:44:11 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Only 9 more days until Christmas Eve!!!)
To: SheLion
Unbelievably noisy.
My grandmother was in a nursing home for a short period, and the poor man in the room across from her cried out for his deceased wife, in a delerium, all day long.
To: mugs99
54
posted on
12/15/2004 1:53:41 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Boycott Boycotts Warrior. If you aint buying call me!)
To: mugs99
I'm sure a lot of folks in nursing homes would feel as you do.The problem is their choice to "take their life like a man" was taken away from them,often due to a stroke.
I don't see them as drooling carcasses,I see them as human beings.
55
posted on
12/15/2004 3:23:10 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Mears
"I don't see them as drooling carcasses,I see them as human beings."Absolutley agreed.
To: Conspiracy Guy
57
posted on
12/16/2004 10:29:12 AM PST
by
mugs99
(Restore the Constitution)
To: mugs99
I need a quality to life.
58
posted on
12/16/2004 11:54:43 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Boycott Boycotts Warrior. If you aint buying call me!)
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