I recently had a chat with a fundraising peer who mentioned a piece of advice she received from another one of our peers: Write your own obituary.
While some may deem this as morbid AF, I actually LOVE this advice. And I've been writing... and editing... and obsessing ever since.
It's not an easy task! My hope is that I can have this to a place where it can be easily edited and helps those grieving my death by getting a simple task out of the way. I also hope that it helps bring them some levity, some memories, some solace. A kind of 'last letter' without knowing when my time is up.
It's an interesting exercise to undertake and would highly recommend it.
Here is a starting point:
https://www.funeralbasics.org/write-great-obituary/
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