My Supervisor Asked Me To Write His Obituary

 

It caught me completely off guard. 
He is soon to undergo major surgery, but I had no idea he had such misgivings about it.

 I agreed of course.  But now what?

Have you heard of Dorothy McElhaney?

Her mother was 104 years aheadof her times by negotiating for anew farmhouse in exchangefor having Dorothy,her 2nd child.


Dorothy, herself, was uniquein that she wrote her own obituarywhich starts:

“It pains me to admit it, but apparently, I have passed away. 

Everyone told me it would happen one day but that’s simply not something I wanted to hear, much less experience.”

And ends

So…I was born; I blinked; and it was over. No buildings named after me; no monuments erected in my honor.

 

But, I DID have the chance to know and love each and every friend as well as all my family members. How much more blessed can a person be?

Deserves a round of applause, right?

To read the whole of it:

If you were called upon to write 

your own obituary,

what would you write?