Friday, January 16, 2009

World's most bitter obituary

My husband read this to me off the Internet several months ago from a Sacramento newspaper and I have not forgotten it. I am reprinting it here to share with you. Curious to see if you think it is sad, funny or possibly both.


Mirror if necessary: Dolores Aguilar 1929 - Aug. 7, 2008 Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be met in the afterlife by her husband, Raymond, her son, Paul Jr., and daughter, Ruby. She is survived by her daughters Marietta, Mitzi, Stella, Beatrice, Virginia and Ramona, and son Billy; grandchildren, Donnelle, Joe, Mitzie, Maria, Mario, Marty, Tynette, Tania, Leta, Alexandria, Tommy, Billy, Mathew, Raymond, Kenny, Javier, Lisa, Ashlie and Michael; great-grandchildren, Brendan, Joseph, Karissa, Jacob, Delaney, Shawn, Cienna, Bailey, Christian, Andre Jr., Andrea, Keith, Saeed, Nujaymah, Salma, Merissa, Emily, Jayci, Isabella, Samantha and Emily. I apologize if I missed anyone. Dolores had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life. I speak for the majority of her family when I say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed and there will be no lamenting over her passing. Her family will remember Dolores and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. We may have some fond memories of her and perhaps we will think of those times too. But I truly believe at the end of the day ALL of us will really only miss what we never had, a good and kind mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. I hope she is finally at peace with herself. As for the rest of us left behind, I hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again. There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes. So I say here for all of us, GOOD BYE, MOM.

5 comments:

Emily said...

Woah, that is so sad. Was that a real obituary? It's hard to believe someone would write that...

Lisa said...

Real thing - from Sacramento, CA newspaper.

I showed my Mom and she we agreed that we think the woman was pretty busy with all those kids - too busy to have hobbies (as he put she had none).

Kristin said...

Yowch! If that was really the case, they should have said "the part will be at 4 pm at our house!" Seriously, she is probably gonna haunt them for the rest of their lives after publishing that in the paper. Hope you're happy, Raymond!

Kristin said...

Ok...another revision...I meant party. See Amy Jo? I make lots of mistakes! Note to self: proofread before you publish, Kristin. Sheesh.

L a u r a said...

I see her family is perpetuating her form of charity. What a legacy!