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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

A Little Happier: After My Beloved Father Died, My Mother, Sister, and I Wrote This Obituary

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We worked for several days on this obituary for my father. We wanted to capture his extraordinary spirit.

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0:00.0

Gretch, as we dive into 2026 on the podcast, we know that so many of us want to focus on wellness.

0:08.0

And I love that Whole Foods Market is basically a one-stop shop for wellness.

0:13.9

You can get great lean protein.

0:17.6

You can find good vitamins.

0:20.6

They have meal shortcuts. If you're doing dry January,

0:24.4

Whole Foods Market has great non-acoholic beer, wine, and mottails. Of course, you have to be 21 plus

0:31.1

in select states to get those. But it's all stuff you can get for a good price. Yes. You can find examples of nourishing and cost-friendly finds that will help you towards whatever

0:42.3

your wellness goal is.

0:44.1

And everything follows whole food market's strict ingredient standards.

0:50.2

Plus, their 365 brand has delicious and wallet-happy varieties of all kinds of foods that are

0:56.8

ready to eat or whatever you're looking for. Shop all things wellness at Whole Foods Market.

1:05.4

Lemonada

1:06.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier. In December, my beloved father, Jack Craft,

1:17.4

died at the age of 87. My mother, my sister Elizabeth, and I were all together for his last

1:23.9

conversation and his last breath. He didn't want a funeral, so after he died,

1:30.0

the three of us spent several days writing and rewriting his obituary as a way to express our

1:35.9

love and pay tribute to him. Although we didn't realize it when we started working on it,

1:41.3

the process of writing this obituary turned out to be such a solace,

1:46.0

a way for us to reflect on the person we loved so much and talk about him and reminisce.

1:52.2

This exercise also gave us a respite from grief because we'd get caught up in the creative

1:57.6

process of making this piece of writing as good as it could be.

2:02.6

Here is what we wrote.

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