Eric Snyder

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Earlier this month Alyssa Josephine O?Neill, 18, made what appeared to be an everyday kind of request ? she asked her mother to take her out for a pumpkin spice latte the following day. But her request turned out to be anything but everyday. O?Neill died the next day, Sept. 4, of an epileptic seizure?and she never got her latte. ?We were just shocked at the sudden loss and didn?t know what to do,? her father, Jason O?Neill, tells CNN. Alyssa was diagnosed a year ago, notes Deseret News. ?There isn?t a protocol for when you lose a child,? he tells the Erie Times News. ?We didn?t know what to do or how to do it. But we knew that lying in bed and crying didn?t feel good. We wanted to feel good and honor Alyssa?s memory.? So the O?Neills decided to try and fulfill the last thing Alyssa asked for ? if they couldn?t get her a pumpkin spice latte, they?d get them for other people and try to pass the kindness forward. Two days after Alyssa?s funeral, her family went to a Starbucks in Erie, Pa., their hometown, and bought lattes for 40 strangers ? all O?Neill asked of the store manager was to pen an #AJO hashtag with a purple marker (her favorite color) on each cup in his daughter?s memory. The Starbucks staff didn?t merely comply; they went over the top, donating an additional 50 lattes in addition the the drinks the O?Neills purchased.