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
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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, |
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| 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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