Dear Judy,
I read you online quite a lot and sometimes like what you say.
Here’s a question. Our church has a pretty healthy congregation, about 500 or so members. Most of them come at least twice a month, which is okay by me. I’m not a hell-fire clergyman.
But we have some I don’t know at all, [...]
Dear Judy,
My brother died. He was 48 and involved with a woman not his wife. Who knew? I didn’t! He died in the saddle, I’m afraid, and yes, I’m the one supposed to deliver the eulogy.
I liked my brother, but he had issues, shall we say… His widow, who’s had her eyes opened by recent events, [...]
Dear Judy
My best friend is dying of cancer. It has been a very very long ordeal.
She chooses to suffer quietly alone with her husband. I have been her only outside contact during her entire suffering. Barbara takes phone calls only from me.
Friends seem to be irate that they cannot speak with her so [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m sure you don’t get too many emails like this. Our mother died on Sunday, supposedly of emphysema and heart disease, but I think of malice. We are burying her this week. She always said she wanted me, her only daughter to give the eulogy. I don’t know what to say that would be [...]
Dear Judy,
An acquaintance who has breast cancer, now in remission, is doing what I’ve noticed you always tell your readers to do: planning everything about her final days and months long in advance. In this instance, she’s also planning her funeral, which is the one planned event I haven’t really seen you recommend.
Anyway, she obviously thinks we’re far [...]
My favorite obit so far (and I thank my friends at the Funeral Consumers Alliance for this tip) was posted on the web last month. It is remarkable for its honesty and its prose which would best be described as…um…unsparing. Here goes:
“Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008… [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009