Committed smoker cremated with her cigarettes

[Champ]

Nursing home staff have paid tribute to a 105-year-old British woman who had smoked since the age of 15 by cremating her with a packet of cigarettes and laying a large floral cigarette on her coffin.

Marie Ellis died of natural causes at the Eaton Lodge Nursing Home in Kent, south-east England, in early December and was cremated clutching a packet of her favourite cigarettes.

"We will always remember her for her smoking because the first thing she asked when she got up was 'can I have a cigarette'," matron Maria Kallis said.

Ms Kallis commissioned a large wreath in the shape of a cigarette, made with white and yellow crysanthemums, for the spinster's coffin.

The enigmatic Ms Ellis, an ex-typist, arrived at the nursing home 15 years ago.

Apart from her 15-a-day habit, she was also notorious amongst staff for her unhealthy eating habits, often asking for sugar in her soup and always demanding three sugars in her coffee.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1266399.htm

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1. Such a Shame...a Life Cut So Short

She could have lived to be 130 if she hadn't smoked all those years :eyes:

[candy]

2. Another smoking related death !!!!!! She shoulld have known better.

[bettyellen]

3. i buried my cat with a lipstick of mine! because i used to kiss her

and get her puss all rouged up. i figured she should have something to remember me by.