Adventurous 93-year-old goes ‘out in style’ as ashes scattered by drone

The Independent

The daughter of an “adventurous” 93-year-old has fulfilled her mother’s wish to have her ashes scattered using a drone and said it was the most fitting way for her to “go out in style”.  Pauline Polhill, from Evercreech, Somerset, died on Christmas Eve 2022 after a previously undetected cancer spread to the outside of her lungs. Source: PA, Beverley Charnley

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00:36 And she said, did you know you can have your ashes scattered

00:39 by a drone?

00:40 And I said, well, no.

00:43 And she's honestly, I'd really like it.

00:46 So I said, well, you can have anything.

00:49 Because at that stage, we didn't really

00:51 know how quick it was going to be.

00:54 And so we weren't really talking about it very much, were we?

01:00 And it kind of brought it home a bit.

01:01 And I said, well, honestly, you can have anything.

01:03 And honestly, that was just that.

01:06 I didn't think we really talked about it.

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01:13 I think she was really thoughtful.

01:15 And so though it's adventurous for her,

01:17 I think she was also thinking of us.

01:19 It was really overwhelming.

01:20 That's the only word.

01:21 Everybody was kind of like, ah!

01:23 You know, I don't know what we all thought.

01:26 But everybody-- it was so lovely.

01:28 It was the neighbors.

01:29 Everybody just thought, that's the best thing we've ever seen.

01:31 So my mum would have just loved that.

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