Obituaries

This may seem strange, but we had a client that died over the weekend and the husband wrote us a really nice letter explaining how she loved us and loved coming to the vet hospital and how caring we are, etc, etc....He also sent the link to her obituary. I would think that writing an obituary for someone would be quite difficult. I'm also weird because I like to read the obituary section from time to time to see what people write about their loved ones. I also know that some newspapers and some funeral homes write the obituary for the families. So I read this particular lady's obituary and it seemed rather vague to me and was mostly about who she was survived by and proceeded by in death. It made me sad that nothing was written about her.

With that said, I got to thinking about what I'd want my obituary to say. I don't care for it to say that I was survived by my 4 cats, I mean, yes I have cats, but no one needs to think I was the crazy cat lady or anything. I think I'd like for it to say something about how I liked to dance and teach dance and how it had been a part of my life since I was 5 years old. How I had a passion for music...even some music my mother never understood why I liked and perhaps only blared through my stereo because I secretly knew she couldn't stand it. How I graduated from college with a degree in literary studies because I had a passion for reading and poetry and, yes, writing (comma splices and all thankyouverymuch). How there is nothing more important to me than my family and the select group of people that I choose to call my friends. And this may sound strange, but I want it to say how I died, even if it was the most horrible death anyone could imagine, I at least think people should know. I mean if you're going to write an obituary, tell people what hapenned! That's all I'm saying.

HAHA, so that seems like a really depressing post. Life is quite boring right now...especially if this is all I have to write about! WOWZA.