Children Attend Mom’s Funeral to Divide Inheritance, See Her Open Her Eyes at Final Farewell — Story of the Day

In Hendersonville, North Carolina, a funeral took a bizarre turn after a woman’s children noticed their dead mother’s eyes open during the ceremony.

Susan’s husband Rick was a wealthy businessman, and after he died in a tragic car accident, he bequeathed his entire estate to his beloved wife. Naturally, Susan or her children never struggled financially, and they never missed out on anything.

However, as Susan’s old age approached, her children, who were all well settled by that time, never bothered to look after their elderly mother. In fact, when the older woman had a heart attack, none of her children bothered to pay her a visit at the hospital.

Martha, Susan’s helper and sole support in her old age, had called all of them, but three of them didn’t even bother to answer the phone, and the one who did, Susan’s eldest son Jason, asked Martha not to bother him again.

“Why are you bothering me if mom is already in the hospital and doctors are looking after her? It’s not like she’s dead!” he yelled at Martha, then hung up the phone.

When Susan regained consciousness, she discovered Martha with wet eyes by her bedside. “Are you okay, ma’am?” she asked, her voice trembling. “I tried calling them, but…”

“It’s fine, Martha,” the elderly lady said weakly, knowing that her sons had not come to see her. “They are my sons. I raised them alone after Rick died. I had a feeling they wouldn’t show up.”

As a result, when Susan recovered, she immediately called her lawyer and wrote a will, the contents of which no one was supposed to know about – at least not until she died. Little did her children know that the day would come soon when the will would be revealed, and their mother would depart for her heavenly abode.

A few days after Susan was discharged from the hospital, Martha called Jason again.

“What is it, Martha? How many times have I told you not to call me?” Jason snapped.

“I’m sorry to bother you, Jason,” Martha explained, “but Mrs. Henderson has passed away. Her dying wish was for all of her sons to attend her funeral, so I called you.”

Jason didn’t want to travel all the way from New York to North Carolina to attend the funeral, but then it hit him. Because her mother had died, the lawyer would read the...