The wife of a terminally ill man is planning to bid farewell to her husband by shaving her head to raise funds for a cancer charity.
57-year-old Mick Maguire was diagnosed with terminal cancer in April. He is helping his 60-year-old wife Fiona organize his funeral and hopes a party will take him away.
Sci-fi fans from Ormskirk, Lancashire The plan is buried in the red Star Trek shirt, just like those worn by the characters in the first season of the TV classic who did not stick to the end of the episode.
He chose Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit In The Sky” to play when he was cremated-after he was persuaded by Trammps’ preferred song Disco Inferno.
There is no way in God’s green space, my funeral will be a sick experience
While he wakes up, Mrs. Maguire will be filmed during the live broadcast of Brave The Shave Macmillan Cancer support.
She said that she thought of this idea after seeing an advertisement on TV.
She told the PA News Agency: “I asked Mick how he would feel if I shaved his head for Macmillan. He said:’I can put on makeup’.
“Then I asked him how it would feel if I did this behind him, and he said,’I think that would be great’.”
Mr. Maguire said his experience of planning a funeral was “very strange”, but he wanted to make sure that his friends and family had something to celebrate.
He said: “On God’s green earth, my funeral will not become a pathological experience.
“This will be a party, there are no two ways.
“I left a will. At the end of the service, I hope everyone will stand up and applaud and dance.”
The two retired computer game enthusiasts got married nine years ago after they met by chance the previous year, and said that every day they were together for ten years was full of laughter.
The money raised from Mrs. Maguire’s shaved head will be donated to the Macmillan Cancer Support Center, which helped her husband, and the Queenscot Hospice Center in Southport.
Her hair will be donated to the Little Princess Trust Fund, which makes wigs for children and young people who have lost their wigs.
Mrs. Maguire said: “hair It doesn’t matter, it will grow back
“I want to raise funds and thank those people who show up day after day and answer my calls when I need them.
“I also want to raise awareness of the need for help from charities.”
Mr. Maguire added: “We are faced with a possibility that this situation can only be described as one of the worst situations in our life experience. If we can do something to change this situation, say here that it is One advantage comes out, here is affirmative, then we will win.
“It is no longer a tragic and sad event, but something worth celebrating.”
Nicole McIlveen, Macmillan’s senior fundraising manager, said: “Mick and Fiona are clearly a brave couple.
“Their positivity in the face of adversity is extraordinary, and we are very grateful that Fiona decided to shave Macmillan bravely.”
To learn more about Brave The Shave, please visit bravetheshave.macmillan.org.uk.
