Winking emoji in obituary waves a goofy farewell to a Spanish grandma - CNET

Did your grandma wa you not to stick out your tongue? Then your grandma wasn't Carmen Bustamante Barangó, who loved the winking, tongue-sticking-out emoji so much that she demanded it run in her obituary.

After she died on Friday in Barcelona at age 75, the Spanish woman's family obeyed her wishes and ran the emoji in the death notice as it appeared in Saturday's El Periodico de Catalunya.

Her son Roman Zabal told El País newspaper that his mother used WhatsApp to communicate with her family, and the emoji used in her obituary was her favorite.

Zabal told El País that his mother wasn't religious and waed her children that, if a religious symbol was used with her death notice, she would come back to life and come after them. If anyone embodied the spirit of this particular emoji, it would seem to be her.

(Via Toronto Sun)