Have you ever thought about writing your own obituary? Making sure that it says what you want it to?
Personally, I have always declined to write my obituary or plan my funeral. It seems to me that this is part of the process one’s loved ones need to go through. No harm to make some notes to help them – but all this is for them, not for me.
Then, someone sent me an obit unlike any I have ever read before. I feel certain that she wrote it herself. I know nothing about this person except what is written, but it makes me wish I had known her.
I imagine a woman laughing many times as she worked on it and pictured friends and relatives reading it one day. I have no idea whether she thought strangers would see it, but read it here:
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