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He’s headed to the great fast food joint in the sky.

A great-grandfather from England was so obsessed with Burger King that his dying wish was to be buried with a bacon double cheeseburger.

The hearse carrying Leonard Durkin, who died late last month of — what else? — heart failure, made a pit stop at the restaurant in Leeds on the way to his funeral, according to ladbible.com.

The death mobile rolled through the drive-thru, where the driver placed an order for Durkin’s favorite calorie-bomb sandwich, the outlet reported.

The greasy grub was then placed on top of Durkin’s coffin — and buried with him.

“He’ll be having a good laugh about it from up there,” his son, Peter Durkin.

A hearse has been spotted going through a Burger King drive-thru.Peter Durkin / SWNSA hearse has been spotted going through a Burger King drive-thru.Peter Durkin / SWNS

He added that the hearse caused a stir at the fast food joint. “People on the street and inside the restaurant were nearly snapping their necks to get a look at us,” he said. “They couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

Adrian Benson, the funeral director, said the buried-with-a-burger request was, “a first for me.”

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