A woman from Richmond, Virginia has had her final say on the 2016 presidential election.
Mary Anne Noland didn’t like the idea of voting for either Republican Donald Trump or Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, so she found another option, according to her obituary.
“Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God,” it reads.
Noland, 68, died on Sunday, May 15.
The obituary was published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch with the tongue-in-cheek comment.
A family friend told NBC12 the comment was not a political statement; just a joke.
She was “feisty” to the end as she battled cancer, he said.
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Noland isn’t alone making sure her last political words are heard.
After Katherine Michelle Hinds died at the age of 34 last month, her family had a request for the bereaved:
“In lieu of flowers, do not vote for Donald Trump,” read her obituary in the Opelika Auburn News.
Carl Crocetti and Larry Upright had the same idea, but skewed to the opposite side of the political spectrum.
“Carl requested in lieu of flowers that people elect NOT to vote for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election in November,” Crocetti’s obituary read.
Crocetti, 62, died earlier this month.
Upright, 81, died on April 13, doesn’t even tell the reader not to buy flowers.
“Also, the family respectfully asks that you do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016.”
Even Canada has used this tactic. During the 2015 federal election, a Peterborough woman asked Canadians to “do everything you can to drive Stephen Harper from office, right out of the country, and into the deep blue sea if possible.”
Noland is survived by her husband, sister and brother, three children and 10 grandchildren.
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