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Grim Chieftain

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21. How you lived your life is how you will be remembered

Reply to LuckyCharms (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 07:28 PM

Dec 28

Not what someone writes to be published in the local paper or handed out at your memorial service. Those who knew you, whose lives you touched are the ones who matter. They know you, and will remember you.

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Something I tend to do a lot, as well as a confession. [View all] LuckyCharms Dec 28 OP

make a tontine with someone! ret5hd Dec 28 #1

But my worry is that... LuckyCharms Dec 28 #3

Worry BOSSHOG Dec 28 #10

How you lived your life is how you will be remembered Grim Chieftain Dec 28 #21

To me, is has to be in writing to be valid. LuckyCharms Dec 28 #22

Well that's depressing. marble falls Dec 28 #29

Not if you lived your life well Grim Chieftain Dec 28 #31

Could you write a letter to the warden, please? There's a pack of cigarettes in it for you. marble falls Dec 28 #32

Gladly, friend Grim Chieftain Dec 28 #34

Sure, we can vouch for each other! Save on a stamp. marble falls Dec 28 #36

HAAAAAA! LuckyCharms Dec 28 #37

Considering the scope of "eternity" safe to figure just about all of us will eventually get over any pique we may have. Attilatheblond Dec 28 #30

What if you go together? marble falls Dec 28 #28

I wrote mine. multigraincracker Dec 28 #2

Did you seriously write yours? LuckyCharms Dec 28 #4

Yep. Gave it to my wife to post. I read a lot multigraincracker Dec 28 #5

Ain't that the truth BOSSHOG Dec 28 #11

I'll tell you something that is kind of eating me up with guilt... LuckyCharms Dec 28 #12

It can be incredibly difficult to get anyone's phone number these days. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 28 #41

Say what you will about this method. OldBaldy1701E Monday #45

Does it really matter since you will be dead and won't know the difference Bluestocking Dec 28 #6

Oh, I'll know alright. LuckyCharms Dec 28 #14

Have a number of dead friends who wrote theirs. cachukis Dec 28 #7

What a great idea. Who could write your obit. better than you? OAITW r.2.0 Dec 28 #8

I felt your post. LuckyCharms Dec 28 #15

Life just sucks, sometimes. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 28 #20

We're about the same age? I'm 67. LuckyCharms Dec 28 #23

Yeah, I'm turning 73, OAITW r.2.0 Dec 28 #24

I've grown old, but I've never... LuckyCharms Dec 28 #25

If only the really young ones knew how juvenile we really are.... OAITW r.2.0 Dec 28 #33

I'm online enough to where I'm trying to talk like people much younger than me... LuckyCharms Dec 28 #35

It's like Yogi Berra said (kinda): rsdsharp Dec 28 #9

When you come to a fork in a cemetary, take it? BOSSHOG Dec 28 #13

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. rsdsharp Dec 28 #16

If you don't go to your friends funeral BOSSHOG Dec 28 #18

I looked up my name and I'm happy to report I'm anonymous kimbutgar Dec 28 #17

My name is more common than i expected... LuckyCharms Dec 28 #19

I wrote mine, too. quaint Dec 28 #26

Here's to many more birthdays for you, quaint. LuckyCharms Dec 28 #27

An auto-obituarty. CrispyQ Dec 28 #38

Some decades ago I took a Thanatology class, death and dying. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 28 #42

If you want something done right.... Ol Janx Spirit Dec 28 #39

Roger Taney* will NEVER escape his obituary..... lastlib Dec 28 #40

I'm a lot more concerned about my jewelry than my obit. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 28 #43

If you kick off before I do, I'll be sure to write something but I'm pretty sure you won't have any opinion of it... NNadir Dec 28 #44