
I’ve written before — here, and here — about incredibly negative obituaries that have been written about some people. Harsh and unforgiving obituaries are apparently so commonplace that somebody on the internet actually prepared a “top five” list of the most “savage” obituaries, which you can find here. And today a friend shared another pitiless obituary blast that appeared recently in the Jacksonville newspaper.
It really makes you wonder how many terrible people are out there–people so awful that their survivors can’t summon a kind word to say about them. But I’ve always thought that obituaries are for the living, and not for the dead. I hope the survivors who wrote these obituaries feel better for doing so, because it sounds like they’ve been through hell already.
Now, I think I’ll try to find a way to be nice to my kids.