It was around this time 4 years ago that my sister Linda asked me if I would write our father's obituary. It had become obvious that he did not have much longer and it needed to be done. While I was doing research on names and dates (when he got his degrees, married our mother, his parents' full names, etc.) I also came across a lot of information about our mother, so I wrote another obituary at the same time, plugging in her information as I found it. I figured why look it all up again sometime in the future.
Now mother is doing poorly and it's time once again to prepare for the inevitable. (This is not very upsetting to me, I guess it's the silver lining of having a violently abusive mother.)
The tough part is that I had to modify my mother's obituary to say that her daughter, my dear sister Linda
, preceded her in death (she passed away almost 2 years ago). When I wrote the obituary, that is not something I ever dreamed I would be adding.
Now mother is doing poorly and it's time once again to prepare for the inevitable. (This is not very upsetting to me, I guess it's the silver lining of having a violently abusive mother.)
The tough part is that I had to modify my mother's obituary to say that her daughter, my dear sister Linda