Man With Terminal Cancer Holds ‘Living Funeral,’ Over 250 People Attend [Video]

You might expect during your 20s to plan a wedding or perhaps a baby shower. However, a life event that probably isn’t on your radar is a funeral, which Shay Martin and Tanner Martin found themselves planning earlier this year—but with a twist.

Tanner, 29, was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer in November 2020 that had spread to his liver at the time but has since progressed to his lungs too. At first, he was given approximately two to five years to live, but as it spread significantly, the couple, from Utah, were told in March 2024 that he only has a matter of months left.

“I always had a small hope that this would get cured,” Tanner told Newsweek. “That this experience would be something I shared with my kids in the future. It’s weird to think that I may never see my kids, that I might never …