He wanted to tell the world just what kind of a kid he was. He was diagnosed with cancer nine months ago and died last Friday.
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"What really bothered me was he always asked, 'Why am I always sick?'" mom Emilie Matthias said.
Those were words that broke Ryan and Emilie Matthias' heart for nearly a year.
"We never necessarily talked about his funeral, so we never had the conversation with him that he was going to die," Emilie told WPLG. "But we had a lot of conversations around it."
Garrett, a superhero fan and a lover of thrash metal music, was perhaps better known as Great Garrett Underpants. He was not a typical kid, and his obituary is reflection of that.
"When I read it, I was thinking 'Wow, sounds like Garrett just yapping at me,'" Ryan said.
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Garrett detailed all the things he loved and all that he didn't. He hated pants and needles and the illness.
Garrett made also some final requests:
"No funeral, because those are sad," he wrote.
Instead he wants a party with five bounce houses, one for each year he lived, a visit from Batman, and his favorite treat -- snow cones.
The most unique request was a symbolic burial ceremony.
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"I want to be burned (like when Thor's Mommy died) and made into a tree so I can live in it when I'm a gorilla," Garrett told his parents.
Garrett's celebration of life will take place Saturday.
"We've cried oceans of tears in the last nine months, and I think this is one of the things that we can do to make his day," Emilie said.
The symbolic burial and his request for fireworks will happen at sunset.
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