re: Am I the only one that finds it weird when people have obituaries that read like a resume?

If I have great career accomplishments, I would not mind letting the world know, after my death.

I have learned some really remarkable things about people I knew from their obits. Maybe just don’t read them.

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Who are the surviving family members trying to impress? John Smith dropped dead today. He was the leading salesman for the southeast region of blah company three years running before being promoted to director of sales where he landed many top accounts blah blah blah. who gives a rats a$$? And now he's dead, just like the janitor. How about he liked fishing with the grandkids and duck hunting with his black lab ?

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I’m hoping when I die it reads Rize fricked all y’all’s Moms at Sonic.

He enjoyed winding stupid people up. This is why he wrote his own obit like this.

Psyche!!

I enjoy reading Obits. Only nag I got is when they say. "died unexpectedly". No one dies unexpectedly, maybe suddenly, but not unexpectedly.

OP’s obituary will read that he mentally cheats on his wife and longs to frick his old high school neighbor’s daughter, even taking steps to try to manifest it by asking her out. He also lies to his wife and refuses to tell his wife about proposed dates with married women

Yikes

some people have impressive careers. sorry you're insecure about yours.

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I wish more obits had how the person died.

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Maybe the family doesn't think it's important.

I buried my son 3 weeks ago today and have trouble saying he died, I say he passed away.

I wrote the obituary and the eulogy. I didn't mention how he died because I didn't know it was important to anyone. Everyone who knew him already knows, he suffered with cancer for 2+ years.

I wanted to I focus on how he lived. If a stranger read either one, they would come away knowing how blessed his family is to have had him in our lives and that we'll see him again.

His kids are young, so I focused mostly on his great love for them and the things he did for them and with them, his dreams and plans for them, the simple things he did every day to bring a smile to their faces, the way he made time for them, patiently teaching them, the talents and family traits they shared. They'll always have the words I wrote and hopefully those words will help them remember what a good man they had for a dad.