She looked stunning as she said her final farewell — after all, she arranged everything herself.
Racine Pregunta, 20, last week succumbed to a rare kind of bone cancer after a 6-month battle with the disease.
Before passing away, the young model from Davao planned the details of her own funeral. She left her instructions with her sister, Rolyn.
“She had these requests: An off- shoulder white dress and a white flowerband… The following day, she said: I want to lay beside Papa,” wrote Rolyn on a Facebook post.
Racine also wanted her personal makeup artist to do her makeup.
Racine was inspired by the award-winning Filipino movie “Die Beautiful,” which was about a transgender woman who made a request to be presented as a different celebrity on the days of her wake.
“If I die, I want to die beautiful,” Racine told her sister after outlining her final wishes.
Racine’s family made sure to give her the funeral she wants. Indeed, she looked beautiful.
‘Today, on the way to the sunset, friends and family gathered and bid their last farewell to Racine who now sleeps beautifully forever. You will always remain in our hearts,” Rolyn wrote on Facebook as she shared photos of her sister’s funeral.
On a separate post, Rolyn added that the star of “Die Beautiful,” Paolo Ballesteros himself sent a special note for her sister.
“You are beautiful — Pao,” the actor wrote on the note.
Racine was laid to rest on top of her father’s burial spot last week.
Coconuts Manila reached out to Rolyn for more information and will update once she replies.
