I don't know what draws me to them but I suppose it is partially due to my curious need to know people to understand who they are or were.
The world is a blur of many faces and lives lived and yet I know not even a tenth of them. Reading a persons obit makes me smile. I can see the love they gave and had from their friends and families. The challenges they faced, the amazing adventures they explored. It doesn't matter if they were a world renown astrophysicist or a stay at home mother, they lived a good life.
Obituaries are meant to announce to the world that this person is gone and give some details about their lives. I will say that although I read them I do wish for more variabiltiy as they all seem somber and follw the same format of stating who they were, where were they born and died, who was their family and their occupation.
Luckily, I do come across some that are just fantastic to read. You can tell that this person was amazing,and at times I wish I could have met them.
As I look at these obituaries I am reminded that life is short, regardless of the age you die at and we must cherish the time we have and push the limit of what we can do. I can only hope that when my time comes my obituary will make someone smile and think "she had a good life..."
