Auckland artist Ruth Cole is carrying out the wishes of her late father by placing a message in his death notice for people to get vaccinated for Covid-19 in lieu of sending flowers.
Before John Cole died on October 4, aged 95, from double pneumonia, he was double-vaccinated and keen to get a booster shot.
Ruth Cole said the reasons she composed the message in the death notice was her father, a retired engineer, brought her up to be vaccinated and she knew leading epidemiologist Rod Jackson.