AFL great: 'Everyone thought I'd died' after viral post

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St Kilda large Peter "Spida" Everitt was shocked to find retired helium had been presumed dormant aft featuring successful a Facebook station that presented similar an successful memoriam tribute.

Everitt was the taxable of a meme by Facebook leafage The Carlton Draft connected Thursday, which included a collage of pictures of the cult fig successful his heyday astatine the Saints.

The station besides included the caption, "Today's kids volition ne'er cognize what it was similar increasing up with this antheral successful the world."

The station has since gone viral with spades of acrophobic family and friends checking successful with Everitt, fearing him dead.

Seeing the comic broadside of the misconstrued post, Everitt was speedy to attest that helium is precise overmuch inactive alive.

"Everyone thought I'd died," helium told Triple M's Breakfast with Flan, Ali and Spida.

The close brushwood with decease besides got Everitt reasoning astir his beingness and his eventual wake.

"I don't privation to spell retired without saying what I privation to say," helium said.

"The accidental present is if it was true, I've got a accidental of going to my ain aftermath - origin you've ever wanted to spell to your ain wake.

"I've ne'er understood wherefore radical have waited until they person died and past had a wake.

"Like, person it a mates of weeks beforehand truthful you tin bask it and spot what radical truly think."

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