Obsessive About Obituaries & Several Good Reasons Why

The 5 W's on my love affair with obits, including who got me started, what kind of obits I collect, where I get the obits, when I began collecting and, most importantly (maybe), why. "A life worth living is a life worth recording." ~ Jim Rohn ~~ "That's what an obit is supposed to be-a picture, a snapshot. It's not a full-length biography, it's not a portrait. It's a quick picture." ~ Alden Whitman

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Poet Pablo Neruda on the Subject


"When I die, I want your hands on my eyes: I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once more: I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep. I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea’s aroma that we loved together, to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live, and you whom I love and sang above everything else to continue to flourish, full-flowered: so that you can reach everything my love directs you to, so that my shadow can travel along in your hair, so that everything can learn the reason for my song."

Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
1904 - 1973

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