Your Favorite Obituaries

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As we prepare for our indefinite hiatus, we wanted to remind you that we will still be making TTFA episodes on our Patreon and Apple Premium feeds. If you aren't a premium member, we wanted to show you what kind of episodes we make over there by bringing one of our bonus episodes to the main feed.

Recently, we asked listeners to send in obituaries about your dead people, and boy oh boy did you all deliver some gems that made us laugh, cry and reeeeeally want to double fist a Dr. Pepper with a Miller High Life.

In this bonus episode, Nora reads some of her favorites.

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0:00.0	Um, how are you?
0:04.8	Most people answer that question with fine or good.
0:10.8	But obviously it's not always fine and it's usually not even that good.
0:15.0	This is a podcast that asks people to be honest about their pain,
0:21.0	to just be honest about how they really feel, about the hard
0:27.0	parts of life. And guess what? It's complicated.
0:34.0	I'm Nora McNerney.
0:37.0	And this is terrible.
0:39.0	Thanks for asking.
0:41.0	We did not have an episode planned for this week, but surprise, here we are. A lot of surprises lately, I know. I have been, ever since I spoke to Aaron recently through a medium, which is a story that I wrote about in my newsletter,
0:57.3	which I will link to in the show description if you are dying to hear it.
1:02.0	Ever since that happened, I've been very into synchronicity, into signs, into what some people might just call meaningless coincidences. But I woke up this morning and after I did all of my mom stuff I checked my email and
1:20.0	the first email that I opened was from a woman who graduated from my same high school,
1:26.4	four years after I did, who also played volleyball, and who did not get, as I did most improved award but instead got what I think is a much more prestigious award nicest
1:40.0	nicest volleyball player. Her name is Kate. She was writing to let me know that we had so many things in common and one of them was that we had both lost our husbands to brain cancer and she had lost her husband very very very recently and
1:57.0	she included a link to his obituary and I opened it and I was so stunned by his youth even though she told me that he was 36. I was
2:11.6	I was so I've cried I cried so hard I cried so hard because she did such a beautiful job of
2:19.3	telling a perfect stranger who he was and why he mattered. And then I remembered that I had actually
2:26.0	been reading a lot of obituaries lately because we asked our listeners to send us their favorites
2:31.4	and then we started turning them into bonus episodes on Apple Plus and Patreon and I thought, okay,
2:37.8	maybe this is a meaningless coincidence or maybe this is a sign. Let's share one of those episodes with everybody because I find it so
2:48.0	meaningful to be able to remember people that we'd never met, to be able to
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