Earlier this month, Christopher Coronado, a 28-year-old Texas man, died in a car crash. He was evidently a huge LeBron James fan, and his family and friends honored him as such.
At the scene of his accident @KingJames it was only right to hang a LBJ tee! Help us honor our friend #chriscoronado pic.twitter.com/H8UsYQ8crb
— breanajenkins (@breanajenkins3) August 7, 2014
@KingJames YOU WILL TWEET US!!! @Coach_Coronado DESERVES IT!!!! #chriscoronado #wewontstop pic.twitter.com/vDr31fpmnh
— breanajenkins (@breanajenkins3) August 7, 2014
@KingJames @coach_coronado our dear friend passed on Friday, today he is being laid to rest, he was your BIGGEST fan pic.twitter.com/cS3fEuKj0M
— Amanda Haverlah (@AmandaHaverlah) August 6, 2014
@KingJames Your #1 fan was all about you! Rip @Coach_Coronado pic.twitter.com/m6ddpHiqXL
— NANCY✨ (@nancyhustle_) August 8, 2014
@KingJames his brother paying his last respects in your jersey, just how Chris would have wanted it! #chriscoronado pic.twitter.com/BGl2vh9QjY
— breanajenkins (@breanajenkins3) August 7, 2014
@KingJames talk about a crowd! And we all know how much this would mean to his kiddos! #chriscoronado #wewontstop pic.twitter.com/EK30iec1PG
— breanajenkins (@breanajenkins3) August 7, 2014
I’m a believer in using funerals to celebrate the life of a person rather than mourn his or her death. I hope Coronado’s family and friends found comport by honoring him this way.
As an aside, this has nothing to do with Coronado, but I couldn’t see those picture without thinking of the line from Dan Gilbert’s letter: “Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.” Anything funeral- and LeBron-relate after that is a little eerie.