Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo posted this to his Facebook account on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.
I have a problem with this obituary.
Born here in Burlington, Madelyn was the 30-year old mother of a toddler. She was beloved by her family. She became addicted to opiods when she was 16 after she tried Oxy at a party. When her addiction finally killed her last week, after she battled it for nearly half her life, a family member with a talent for expression wrote her the honest and moving obituary she truly deserved. It went viral. It’s being read across the country. It’s in People, the Globe, HuffPost, and the Daily News. My problem with it is that it’s a much better obituary than the rest of us deserve.
Source: Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo on viral opioid obituary