The funeral for Mariely Chacon was held on September 11, 2021 in Caracas.
Many were able to pay tribute to the shipwrecked mother who saved her children by breastfeeding them for days.
The funeral was streamed and remains on YouTube today:
One YouTube user commented below the video, “I did not have the privilege of meeting you. Your last days of life speak a lot about what was in your beautiful heart, you are a being of light in eternity.”
Another wrote about how a mother’s love “can do everything.”
One journalist who was moved by the mother’s heroic act tweeted, “The Virgin of Coromoto is watching Mariely Chacón Marroquin in Caracas. Rest in peace.”
