They say, “You can’t take it with you when you go.” If “it” is your sense of humor, possibly you can take it with you. If so, Heaven is rocking with giggles right now.
This is an obituary from the Dallas Morning News. I thought I might die laughing when I read it:
Merritt, Edward “Bruce.” Born April 3, 1951 in North Carolina. He was one of eight children. His older sisters regularly beat him up, put him in dresses, and then forced him to walk to the drugstore to buy their Kotex and cigarettes. After graduation from high school he went on to lead a life of luxury in the United States Air Force. After excaping [sic] from the government he spent most of his life as a mechanic, husband, and father. Bruce Merritt never met a stranger, and in many ways was stranger than most. He is survived by one daughter, two grand- children, two ex-wives, unpaid taxes, and many loyal loving friends.
Although I posted it on Twitter yesterday, some of you don’t bother with following “tweets” (if you follow every link people give you, you’ll never get anything done!). At first, I thought this might be a hoax, but Desert Diva had the forethought to read the guest book and thinks it’s for real, and that he wrote it.
What a way to go! Leave them laughing. Reading that makes me wish I had known that man, God love him. He must have been hilarious when he was alive. He was probably the life of any party.
I’m thinking he had the right idea. Maybe we should write our obituary ahead of time, so we don’t end up with some dry, dull forgettable snippet. If you were writing yours, what would you say?
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That was truly funny. You do wish you had the pleasure of his company. Now I haven’t written an obituary, but did do a biography once that has the opening,
“Jamie first entered this universe as a small bit of protoplasm in the primordial ooze.”
Maybe you could do one of your contests for Obits and Bios.
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I love that! It really is a compliment to the person he was! Maybe I should work on my own obit. and stash it away for ‘whomever’ to use!:twisted:
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He does sound like he was quite a card. I’m still trying to figure out what my obituary will say, but I know it has to say something about bacon!
It’s sad, but I am an obit reader, first thing I read. Then I say to my husband, please don’t have a heading like….Loved to knit and play on her computer.
I would write my obituary and eulogy…it would be fun.
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Write my own obit? Not a bad idea. No one knows me better. I’ll play around with this one.
I’ve been pondering it, but I don’t think I could write my own obit. I’m so “irreverent” that it might shock everyone I know. My sense of humor is just too far out there.