‘It has been such a good life’

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Rudolph Clausing, 66, wrote a brief observe for his household whereas he was hospitalized with COVID-19. His observe, which reads, “It has been such a very good life,” was discovered after he handed away on Jan. 13, 2021. (Anna Harp)

Two sisters who misplaced their father to COVID-19 memorialized his final second with the ultimate phrases he left for them.

Anna Harp, 28, and Abrielle Clausing, 21, acquired a last observe from their father Rudolph Clausing in January that learn: “It has been such a very good life.” 

Months aside, the 2 girls determined to every get a tattoo of their father’s observe to not solely keep in mind him, however to additionally function a logo to stay a fulfilled life.

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“We had been each eager to get a tattoo,” Harp advised Fox Information whereas noting that her father’s last message is her fourth tattoo and Classing’s first. 

In Harp’s opinion, it was “so apparent” that they need to decide his final phrases “as a result of there’s actually nothing extra particular than the final phrases that he left us.”

Rudolph Clausing’s daughter Abrielle Clausing, 21, additionally obtained a tattoo of his last phrases however as an alternative opted for a design that options his handwriting. (Anna Harp)

The pair, who’re from Siloam Springs, Arkansas, went to Harp’s favourite tattoo artist Dustin Cleveland in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to get their very own variations of their dad’s observe. 

Harp selected a stylized tattoo design that options her father’s observe together with two dogwood flowers, his favourite blooms. Clausing, alternatively, selected to tattoo her father’s final phrases in his actual handwriting.

On Wednesday, June 23, Harp shared a brief clip of their tattoo journey and Rudolph’s last phrases on TikTok, which rapidly went viral with a couple of million views and hundreds of feedback in help.
 

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Rudolph fell in poor health with COVID-19 within the fall when the pandemic was at its peak, Harp advised Fox Information. He had solely discovered he had interstitial lung illness shortly earlier than the pandemic started in March 2020. In his case, the situation was hereditary fairly than being attributable to publicity to hazardous supplies.

The American Lung Association stories the ondition causes scarring that may make respiratory troublesome and “is commonly irreversible.”

Harp and Clausing each mentioned they did their finest to maintain their distance and put on masks to maintain their father protected after they discovered about his lung illness.

Anna Harp tells Fox Information she and her youthful sister Abrielle Clausing had in the reduction of on seeing their father in particular person when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak. (Anna Harp)

“We did not even see him that a lot as a result of we had been so anxious that we had been going to one way or the other give [COVID-19] to him,” Harp defined. “[But,] mainly our worst nightmare got here true as a result of we had been so anxious and it occurred.”

After a two-month battle with COVID-19, Rudolph died on the age of 66 on Jan. 13.

When requested what Harp and Clausing need readers to find out about their father, they are saying he was a caring dental technician with greater than 40 years of expertise. He’d make individuals’s lives higher by creating customized dentures and crowns.

Rudolph grew up in Raytown, Missouri, and loved out of doors actions comparable to fishing, searching, grilling and tenting. He was a “household man” who appreciated to play cornhole together with his six kids or stress cook dinner a meal. 

“He made everybody really feel beloved and he noticed the great in everybody,” Clausing advised Fox Information. “I actually take that with me in my life.” 

Harp added, “If we are able to simply be even a portion of the particular person he was then I’ll really feel fulfilled in life.”