The strong blows caused by a traffic accident prevented a 16-year-old teenager from being able to physically say goodbye to his mother, who died in the same tragedy.
Although the boy could not physically be at the funeral, he asked for his mother, Jenny Salazar Mendoza, 38, to say goodbye with all the love she deserved.
The young man asked his aunt Angélica Salazar to put him in the prettiest clothes and even told him which earrings his mother should wear on her last day on earth.
The boy could not be at the funeral because in the accident he suffered a punctured lung and other injuries that kept him hospitalized in different hospitals both in the southern part of the country and in the INS Trauma hospital in La Uruca, San José.
Jenny Salazar Mendoza, 38, left two children whom she always adored. Photo: Courtesy of La Teja
“As he could not attend either the candle or the funeral, he asked me to please put some things on her that she really liked, some earrings that my grandmother had given her, a chain that she really liked, a bracelet that the youngest son (the young man’s brother) gave her,” Angélica recalled as part of the farewell they gave her older sister.
Ñeñe, as they called this young mother, died on Sunday, June 9 at 3:59 pm in the El Tecal neighborhood, in front of the Rancho Palmarín restaurant, in Palmar sur, Osa.
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She was traveling in a car with a cousin named Cortés, 47, and her eldest son, they were going to the funeral of a loved one when the tragedy happened.
In the midst of so much pain, the family is grateful that Ñeñe’s son and his cousin survived and they do not hold any grudges, they prefer to be left alone with the memories that she left them.
“My sister also left a twelve-year-old son and he wrote her a letter that his brother dictated for her to put in the coffin.
“He also asked me to make a video because the psychologist told him that in addition to mourning, he needed those images because it was the only way he would be able to say goodbye to his mother,” the aunt recalled.
This death has been very difficult, especially for the children of this mother, who gave everything for them. She was buried in the cemetery of the La Puerta del Sol community in Palmar Sur.
A false overtake caused the tragic death of Jenny Salazar in the Tecal neighborhood in Palmar Sur de Osa. Photo: Courtesy of LT
Jenny was the eldest of six sisters and one brother, who remember her as a very happy person, she was always smiling and was very sociable.
“She was a lot of laughs, she always liked to share with the family and that is what we left with her,” said the sister.
Jenny is believed to have died due to a false overtaking, she was travelling in the passenger seat.
“Presumably the events occurred because the driver made a false overtake, lost control of the vehicle and left the road, the woman died at the scene, while the two men were taken to the Tomás Casas hospital,” they stated in the report. OIJ.
The family does not harbor any resentment and Angélica assures that they see it as an accident.
The Traffic authorities, for their part, insist on respecting the speed limits so as not to cause pain to families and in this way also avoid deaths of innocent people, since in many accidents people die who had nothing to do with the cars that were going at high speed. speed.
Jenny Salazar Mendoza died in an accident, her son survived but was very ill and from the hospital he gave instructions for the funeral. Photo: Courtesy of La Teja
