What would you want someone to say about you?
Published on February 16, 2005 By Mallory Lernihan In Blogging
Before the the living obituary was assigned, I had never really given my own obituary any thought. The idea of someone speaking at my funeral was never a subject that crossed my mind. However, after I started interviewing my assigned person, I could not help but ponder what people would say about me. I guess this sounds a bit conceited, but after I began composing my person's obituary, I truly wondered about my own. During class, people volunteered their husbands and girlfriends, already establishing what they would want to be said. Even though each person was given kind words, sadly, the words chosen were not the ones that our classmates had wanted. This experiment triggered an epiphany in my mind, maybe what I hope people think of me does not match up with what they truly think. Dr. Feinberg's suggestion of writing down what you hope people would say to you at your funeral and then giving this paper to your family and friends, even though a "creepy idea," is one that made me stop and think. I don't think I would ever have the guts to conduct this little project, but I would be eager to see the outcome of what my family and friends thought. I wish that I did not feel so uncomfortable doing this, and I truly don't know why I would feel so weird, but I hope that my family and friends would speak kind words that matched up with my thoughts as well. Maybe as I grow older, I will find the confidence in myself to ask my family and friends what they would say at my funeral, and hopefully that day will prove that we are all on the same page.
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