A South African pastor’s marriage proposal has gone viral.
The reason? The pastor filmed himself proposing to a grieving woman in the middle of her father’s funeral – just meters from the deceased’s coffin.
The proposal video has more than 278,000 views.
The woman’s reaction
According to with information from the New York Post, the pastor, who officiated the ceremony, had asked for the woman’s hand in marriage in order to help her, he said, heal her wounded heart.
In the video, the daughter of the deceased can be seen mourning the death of her father in the front row near the casket. Suddenly, the man kneels before the grieving girl with a microphone and proposes to her.
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The “frozen” woman remains silent. The pastor then puts a ring on her finger which she seems to accept.
Needless to say, TikTok overwhelmingly disapproved of the gesture, with one user writing: “This is WRONG… no matter how you try to justify it.”
“The timing isn’t right,” said another, while one commenter called the funeral proposal “sheer disrespect on all levels.”
