dinsdag 12 augustus 2014

Will You Have a Cyber Funeral?

At a writing class in school, the teacher asked us all to write our obituaries. An odd exercise for beginning writers and other weirdo creatives, perhaps to judge what they think of themselves and their relationships with those around them?


Maybe it’s useful as a way to set one’s goals? Maybe the teacher just wanted to spend an hour of silence because he was unprepared.


Life After Death on the Internet


Momento Mori – Remember You are Mortal


The brilliant student, self-important, delusional obituaries were the usual smattering of “New York Times bestselling author” and “retired billionaire author.” Mine simply read, “the remains of a man discovered in dense jungle of the Amazon basin have yet to be identified.”


That’s how I wanted to go. For people to ask others, “I wonder whatever happened to him?”