In October 2007, Solomon Chau celebrated his 19th birthday in Ontario with friends. It was by pure chance that Jenn was visiting a friend, and that she wound up at Solomon’s party. Jenn would catch Sol’s eye … and two months later Sol took a more-than-three-hour bus ride around Lake Ontario during a snowstorm in December just to show up at her door and ask her out.
By spring of 2014, Sol organized a flash mob in the plaza beneath Toronto’s CN Tower and proposed to Jenn. Of course, she accepted.
The wedding was scheduled for TODAY — August 22, 2015. Instead, today is his funeral.
You see, in December 2014, Sol was diagnosed with liver cancer. Within 48 frantic hours, he was rushed into surgery. The doctors were able to remove the tumor which was poisoning his liver. By New Year’s Day, it seemed that everything was all right.
Except that it wasn’t. In March 2015 the cancer returned. Sol and Jenn were told that the ending was inevitable.
The story doesn’t end quite yet.
The city of Toronto rallied together behind the couple and surprised them with an unforgettable wedding on April 11, 2015. In just three days more than $50,000 was raised on GoFundMe to throw Sol and Jenn a lavish wedding. Expensive wedding vendors such as Boundless Wedding Videos (the video below), Red Earth Photography, and Liberty Entertainment Group volunteered their services free of charge.
Sol and Jenn look so happy. But, I wonder what it must feel like … to marry the love of your life, while knowing you’ll be dead a few months later. The wedding party and guests were in high spirits. Sometimes, even in the face of tragedy, it is the only thing one can be.
Today, Jenn is burying her husband of 128 days. Sometimes, life just isn’t fair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fUosjLn_AQg
This is so sad. Life is not fair. This is when people become religious, and you make yourself believe that the person has gone on to a better place and was perhaps spared something much worse- though only a few things are worse than a wasting, painful, terminal illness.
Wonderful that their community came in for them.
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead.
Do not place them on their tombstones-speak them rather NOW instead.
Do not save your scorn for assholes you daily see
Dickfuks here like Russia Is Strong and Willibee.
Piss on them, cuss them, and always vote them down
TBP is for smart folk, but they play the role of a clown.
Outrageous lies and pure bullshit they spread
So, let us pray , “Dear Lord, strike them dead!”
Hobbes says fuck all of you ….life is nasty , brutish and short… Of continual fear and danger of violent. Death… assholes…. So don’t gives us these sad stories. Life is a sad story.
Stucky….I for one appreciate the comments from Russia is Strong.
I share something in common with this story. My wedding day was my funeral as well, but just for the corpse of my hopes, expectations and white knight mangina fantasy of how marriage should be.
Landed , so your telling us you were a dumb ass who believed in fairytales but then they all were shattered to pieces ?
Relax., I married a woman possessed by Satan. Didn’t know it until about two months later. Big surprise.