Sunday, January 17, 2010
on making lists
I love lists. I love reading other people's lists. I love writing lists. Over at Hula Seventy I found a link to listography where you can read lists. Or log in and create your own. I like the idea of keeping lists of likes and dislikes. Of dreams and accomplishments. This ties into my curious habit of scouring the obituaries daily. I read obituaries. And I am disappointed when I don't get a strong sense of the person who has passed away. What was their story? I wonder if I should start writing my own obituarie? Is that weird? Do people write their own? Do they update them as they get older? Maybe I should just focus on an epitaph. Has anyone written their own epitaph? What would you want your tombstone to say?
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I think usually it is who ever is left writes the obituary; if the person has the foresight and personality to plan ahead, they may do thier tombstone.
I alway visit the cemetary at the monastery; many say who they were married to, wife, mother. but the one that strike me as the most true have a cross, perhaps a place for a vigil candle and the simple phrase "Lord have mercy"...
I hope sincerely that when I die that I am buried either at the monastery or at least in an Orthodox cemetary where there are still prayers done at the graves...
I read the obituaries too. Sometimes I feel like people aren't being honoured in their true sense of spirit... more for their accomplishments. But is what we do not part of who we are? It makes me wonder what will be written about me, and who it would be written by, because certainly every person that knew the deceased would write a different obituary.
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