Meanest obit ever?

[QYFW]

Minnesota woman's obit takes dark turn over long-ago extramarital affair

Knocked up by husband’s brother and abandoned her kids. Not your typical “extramarital affair.”

 

[HanSenSE]

Hey, at least "will now face judgment" is more honest than some of the other things I've seen.

"Joins the Lord's Heavenly Choir"
"Entered Heaven hand-in-hand with Jesus"
"Earned her Angel's wings"
etc ...

The journalist in me says "died." The obit page editor in me just sighs and makes another batch of doughnuts ...

If it's a paid obit, they can word it any way they please. And it is putting money in the journo's pocket.

Remember proofing the obits at one stop when I came across the following passage (loosely paraphrased): "Joe Schmoe was born in Germany in the 1920s. He was in the Army during World War II. After the war, he came to America and became a citizen in the 1960s." I stopped editing and turned to the newsroom secretary, who types obits. "Did you see this? He was on the other side during the war."

 

[Justin_Rice]

"Did you see this? He was on the other side during the war."

There were good people on both sides.

 

[Buck]

Man it has been, thankfully, more than a decade since I was asst. city editor at small-town paper.
Editing obits was part of the daily work.

One paid obit I changed said deceased man said he had 'won several Medals of Honor.'

Another I remember was a man who was preceded in death by his parents, a sibling, a wife and a child, but concluded by saying he was going to the afterlife to join 'Big Jim' his horse.
Cracked up. Guy lost all of those loved ones, but his afterlife will be focused on his horse.

 

[Buck]

Minnesota woman's obit takes dark turn over long-ago extramarital affair

The kids took the time and money to run a paid obit for a woman they despised.
Too each his own. I'd like to think I'd ignore the person in life and death.

 

[heyabbott]

The kids took the time and money to run a paid obit for a woman they despised.
Too each his own. I'd like to think I'd ignore the person in life and death.

Really, your mother abandons you after cheating on your father with his brother. You are left to be raised by your grandparents and ignored by your parents.
Live and let live and then die. No hard feeling. It’s cool. We are OK?

**** that.

 

[QYFW]

The kids took the time and money to run a paid obit for a woman they despised.
Too each his own. I'd like to think I'd ignore the person in life and death.

Probably was cathartic.

 

[poindexter]

Probably the best 100 bucks they ever spent. (I do not know the cost of an obit).

Every person in her town should know what she did.

 

[Buck]

Really, your mother abandons you after cheating on your father with his brother. You are left to be raised by your grandparents and ignored by your parents.
Live and let live and then die. No hard feeling. It’s cool. We are OK?

**** that.

Probably very much hard feelings.
I'm not saying I'd forgive and forget.
I'd like to think, though, that the person would've been dead to me for a long time.
I'd hope that I wouldn't waste time, money or emotion on her death.

But I have very little point of reference for something like this, so it's hard to say how I'd feel/react.
I literally have not a single person I know or have known who I actually hate.
Maybe a handful of people I dislike, and for the most part, I don't think about them.

 

[Buck]

Probably was cathartic.

You're probably right or at least they thought I might be when they did it.

 

[QYFW]

You're probably right or at least they thought I might be when they did it.

Imagine all the times they wanted to lash out and couldn’t. This was a harmless way to do it. But your point is well taken. Often getting one’s anger out isn’t as successful as we want it to be.

 

[poindexter]

I'd bet a 6-week moddy suspension that these 2 kids feel fantastic about now.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Children who wrote brutal obituary about their mother explain their decision | Daily Mail Online

 

[poindexter]

Good for these kids.

And again, the Daily Mail UK gets the story on interesting stuff in the United States.

 

[HanSenSE]

I'd bet a 6-week moddy suspension that these 2 kids feel fantastic about now.

That's the biggest thing for them. They let me and my brothers write an obit for our father, who for the most part hasn't been a part of our lives since high school, and it's gonna be a beaut.
I'm thinking more now about the day I drove home after a long day in the newsroom and closed the car door with a little extra gusto before heading inside. A few minutes later, a neighbor pointed out I had shattered the driver-side door window. May still be the best money I ever spent, getting it replaced.

 

[Scout]

Is this allowable?

What risk is the paper taking on if some of the things printed are not true?

 

[CD Boogie]

The kids took the time and money to run a paid obit for a woman they despised.
Too each his own. I'd like to think I'd ignore the person in life and death.

If I were them, I’d pay to run it each year on the anniversary of her death.

 

[CD Boogie]

Is this allowable?

What risk is the paper taking on if some of the things printed are not true?

Well the person is dead, so libel is out the window. Also, the person is dead, so vengeance is out the window. So take the money and run.

 

[Vombatus]

Yeah, and what's with that exalted Rainbow Bridge for dogs and cats?

Hey, don’t **** with the Rainbow Bridge. For some of us, they are our little humans. The Bridge is comforting.

Plus, you can’t jump off of it, so that’s a plus.

 

[Slacker]

Hey, don’t **** with the Rainbow Bridge. For some of us, they are our little humans. The Bridge is comforting.

Plus, you can’t jump off of it, so that’s a plus.

You can always stuff your dead pet and stand it over there by the fireplace. Maybe on a miniature Rainbow Bridge.