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Nevilledog

(51,121 posts) Sun Jul 12, 2020, 05:26 PM Jul 2020

I'm a Healthcare Worker & I'm Writing my Obituary Today.

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/07/im-a-healthcare-worker-im-writing-my-obituary-today-anna-ferrell/

My wish was to have a life full of travel, adventure, blissfulness, and mystery.

If only those were my words. But instead, I started my obituary more like this:

Apple. That was my first word. Remembering that has always been important to me. My pawpaw’s apple trees were my first memories of nature, how it is so mighty and gives back. Getting to choose what kind I wanted and how each family member ate them differently.

Oh, and the grape vine that was across the street. While we were out playing, we could just ride our bikes up under the vine and have our fill of them. As an adult, I miss the simplicity of those moments, a convenience that I had no idea would not follow me throughout my life.

I loved the life I was given, though it was without as much calculation as I probably should’ve given it. It just seemed right to let the winds of these times carry my soul and mind like a leaf caught in a hurricane.

That is how I started writing my obituary—an odd writing exercise to some, I am sure.

But being a healthcare worker in this pandemonic time, you can’t not try to plan your advance directive. In January, my best friend Skye passed away suddenly, and this month my friend’s mother has as well. In times like these, you try to prepare and recreate yourself to fit a new reality that you never hoped would happen.

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I'm a Healthcare Worker & I'm Writing my Obituary Today. (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2020 OP

I told my family that I wanted my obit in both Philly papers PCIntern Jul 2020 #1

Instead, I hope it's "Lived to 105. Pain in the ass the whole way." Nevilledog Jul 2020 #2

Much preferred... PCIntern Jul 2020 #3

I am curious Skittles Jul 2020 #4

Yes. My attorney would see to it. PCIntern Jul 2020 #5

PCIntern

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1. I told my family that I wanted my obit in both Philly papers

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2020, 05:29 PM

Jul 2020

And the Jewish Exponent here. My family is extremely “private” and no one who we have lost has been in the paper, but I want it in there and I wanted to say that I died from Covid and it was due to the malfeasance and murder of the federal government.