SYCAMORE TWP., Ohio — Nick Mundy had always been scared of dying.

Last summer, he was in the hospital. He’d been sick for 11 years, but now his cancer was killing him.

His wife knew the plan, or at least part of it. She knew Nick wanted to die in their home, the same one he grew up in.

But Shelby wasn't sure. The rest of his plan wasn't what most people would consider normal. She asked him again.

"Please," she remembers her husband saying. "Don't let me die here."

They went home, and they invited their friends and family.

“We chose not to have a normal funeral,” Shelby said. “But people were walking in here, and I don’t think they understood what somebody actively dying means.”

For Shelby, it meant cleaning her husband and placing flowers around his body. It meant dressing him in sh

See Full Page