What makes a life well lived? Millions of obituaries reveal the answer
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | I do think it's a little weird. You're scouring the obituaries. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm not scouring the obituaries. A new study was done from legacy.com and they were trying to come up |
| 0:40.2 | with the answer to what makes a life well lived. And they reviewed 38 million obituaries to |
| 0:47.0 | try to find the answer. Oh, wow. Boy, that's an uplifting job. Hey, you should meet our new |
| 0:52.7 | hire E. Harold. What's Harold's job? He has to scour all the |
| 0:56.8 | obituaries. He's going to read 38 million obituaries. And? Well, what he found is that you're like, |
| 1:05.1 | he's a guy. Right. What he found is that pretty much your entire life, which is on average about 4,000 weeks, |
| 1:13.7 | gets compressed down into roughly 175 words. |
| 1:18.6 | That is interesting, isn't it? |
| 1:20.2 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah. |
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| 1:23.7 | The top words that were used. |
| 1:26.4 | How many weeks? |
| 1:35.4 | They say it's 4,000 weeks. 4 thousand weeks. And all of that time comes down to 175 words. Yeah. That's pretty amazing. The words that were mentioned the most in 80% of obituaries were faithful and praying. Yeah. And benevolence and caring for others was mentioned 76% of the time. |
| 1:49.2 | And some of the other values that were a little less emphasized but still mentioned in a lot of the |
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