One elderly lady from Madrid decided that she would launch a rebuke from beyond the grave, using her obituary in a national newspaper. She had given instructions before dying that the obituary should appear exactly how she had intended.

The 78-year-old woman, Soledad Hernández Rodríguez, had finally passed away and was buried in the Carmarma de Esteruelas in Greater Madrid (the autonomous region) . Nobody in that town remembers the woman, but many of the 7,000 inhabitants have been around to the cemetery, nevertheless, to read her tombstone, where it reads, “God will impart justice to those that did you harm.”

Her son, Honorio, was with her to the last, receiving the task, he claims, to have the inscription placed and the obituary printed.

The said obituary read: “She wanted on her death bed that it should be made public that she forgives those members of her family that abandoned her when she needed them most; her brothers Juan & Manuel, She forgives her daughter, María Soledad for her total lack of love and support during her long and difficult illness.”

One of the woman’s brothers mentioned, Juan, considers that it the ‘message’ was absurd and completely incorrect. According to him, his relation with his sister was good, “There were no problems. The person who did this has acted wrongly,” referring to his nephew who published the obituary.

Even the priest who officiated the burial was surprised by the words on the headstone and in the obituary. “We don’t know the family; apparently they lived for the last 15 years in a new part of town.” The priest said that family members attended the burial but that there was no funeral service; i.e., Mass.

Could the nephew have done it off his own back?

(News: Carmarma de Esteruelas, Madrid, Spain – photo: www.hoy.es)