Is It Necessary to Lie After Death?

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… [...]