No doubt about it – the topic is morbidly fascinating. As I get older, I find myself checking out the obituary pages more and more. They’ve evolved over the years for simple, skeletal outlines of a person’s life – place of birth, parents, spouse and family, military service, jobs and hobbies. Slowly, whoever is writing these is attempting poetic flights of fancy with phrases like – “passed into the hands of God” or “stepped off the Heavenly cliff”. As we don’t know exactly where the dearly departed ended up, this could be misleading. “Dropped in the fiery abyss” may well be more accurate, or to some survivors, a more fitting end. Continue reading “‘Til Death Do Us Write (Thoughts on Obituaries)”
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