Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:01 pm
WmZiggy wrote: . . . Hitler was not a funny guy! That is an understatement!!!!
I always used to tell Army and Airmen that they should write their own obituary the way they like it. Why leave it to someone else? Most printed in the paper are name, date, and serial number. I used to tell them to focus on how you lived out your calling (vocatus) in life. So for woodworkers its seems very appropriate to make one's own urn. While I was making Blake's I thought I should make mine and my wife's, except the veterans cemetery here in North Dakota probably has all sorts of rules and regulations. I will have to check that out.
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That reminds me of my Father's uncle. I read his obituary. In life he was a bit of a stick in the mud! All prim and proper etc.(which I thought was out of character for an indian agent). His obituary was full of he did this and he did that and was highly complimentary the whole way through.
Fortunately(?) the newspaper editor prefaced it with a comment similar to the following: "This obituary was written by the deceased prior to his demise, therefore the reader should take that fact into consideration while reading it."
The obituary was 'true to the character of the author' and the editor definitely had a sense of humor!(or maybe an overpowering urge to 'get even' for something)
I read it only recently after obtaining much stuff from a cousin. I laughed my derriere off! Although I did not know him well(we crossed paths only twice), I knew him well enough to see the irony and would have liked to have met that editor!