Sadly, death is a part of life, odd as that may sound. It is something that every person who walks the planet will eventually come across.

That doesn’t lessen the agony of losing a loved one, though. Whatever the situation, whether anticipated or not, it will always sting and pain.

Richard Marsh, a former Marine captain, is suffering from stage four liver and pancreatic cancer.

Tragically, Richard and his daughter Stacey Dombalis are aware that he will eventually pass away.

Richard has been preparing his funeral with his daughter, aware that his life is about to end. A bagpiper

was among the things Richard was certain he wanted at his service. At his burial, he wanted that exquisite instrument to be performed.

But a YouTube video demonstrates how Stacey performed one even better for her cherished father.

Rather than wait for his demise, Stacey made contact with a bagpiper. Richard shed tears as he rose up to honor the musician after she engaged him to give her father a surprise concert.

Stacey remarked, ‘I saw this man who’s not in the best of health, you know, stand up.’ He had no intention of sitting down. He felt like saluting and getting up.

Mike Crawley, the bagpiper in the video, was shocked by Richard’s response and insistence on giving him a salute.

Which is absolutely absurd, Mike remarked. ‘A man with his military experience standing here and giving me a salute when, of course, we should all be giving him a salute.’

It was ‘just beautiful to watch,’ according to Stacey, as her father got up to salute Mike while he was playing the bagpipes.

Mike said later in the video that the bagpipes were very important to his late father and that he had a particular place in his heart for them.

‘I think I honor my dad every time I play,’ Mike remarked.