Jun 03, 2009 7:23 PM GMT
It does seem macabre but there are many sites now where you can write your own obituary - some of these sites walk you through the process and help you decide the most important things you want to be said about your life, what you've done with it, and maybe in the future something you can add on to or if nothing else, fine tune it so that it's exactly how you want it. I see the obits in the local papers here and they obviously look like they were written by a distant family member who knew nothing about the relative.
I don't want to immediatley sound super negative but a lot of us are alone and will probably die alone, meaning that the person who writes our obituary will be someone who knows very little about our lives. Knowing that I'm not going to be having kids or a partner in my lifetime, I want to have this thing written and ready to go by the time something happens or if I am too sick to write it well. I don't know what made me think of this, I found the site and thought this would be a good idea for a lot of us because as I see it, very few things about our lives have been 'traditional', why should this be one of them? I don't plan to have the typical funeral or any of that.
I don't want to immediatley sound super negative but a lot of us are alone and will probably die alone, meaning that the person who writes our obituary will be someone who knows very little about our lives. Knowing that I'm not going to be having kids or a partner in my lifetime, I want to have this thing written and ready to go by the time something happens or if I am too sick to write it well. I don't know what made me think of this, I found the site and thought this would be a good idea for a lot of us because as I see it, very few things about our lives have been 'traditional', why should this be one of them? I don't plan to have the typical funeral or any of that.
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