Describing the Looney family's presence at Friday's burial ceremony, Manion-Borek said that "every single one of them came up to me and said, Thank you."

We'll wrap him in tissue paper, put him in a little box, then have a nice burial ceremony in the back yard. After that, we'll go out for an ice cream soda, and then get you a new pet.

In addition, corpses of deceased cholera patients should be handled with extreme caution and correctly disinfected before proceeding with the burial ceremony to avoid further contamination.