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When you get your own thread on Kiwi Farms it means there are enough people who are interested in engaging in a long-term harassment campaign against you, the first thing that Kiwi Farms users did when my thread opened was find the obituary for my dead father and use it to find his memorialized Facebook page. – Clara Sorrenti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was once very difficult for me to realize that more than likely my obituary in the paper will read, 'Luke of Luke and Laura fame died today.' It was very upsetting when I came to that realization. – Anthony Geary	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Shale can't come to the rescue and you need OPEC to prevent runaway prices, in 2015, people wrote OPEC's obituary because of shale. But now OPEC is in the driver's seat. – Helima Croft	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The obituary for New York City has been written a lot of times, i'm a lifetime New Yorker. And I have great confidence that collectively, we will rise above this and we will drive down the crime and COVID will be in the rearview mirror. And people will return to work with both confidence and expectation of security and safety that would be consistent with their expectations and with the expectations of their employers. – Spencer Platt/Getty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
' Why can't I do that ?' it will go down in his political obituary. – Randy Economy	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The response to the obituary has been nothing less than profound, we have had over 50 responses to this minute and they keep coming from around the world. – De Carolis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I spent Mother's Day planning my son’s funeral, writing his obituary, instead of having breakfast or flowers or ‘ I love you mom, ’ try to imagine what it would be like and multiply that by infinity and that's kind of what it's like … there's no words. Tua, who was in sixth grade, was described as a child who loves football and has a. – Tua Muai	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
What I try to point out is … it’s not how big your bank account balance is -- nobody ever puts that in their draft obituary -- or that they billed the most hours, or that they won the most cases. It’s how they treated other people along the way, for me, [ I think of the ] the words I read [ just ] yesterday from Increase Sumner’s tombstone. I ’d like to be remembered as a good dad, a good husband, kind and mild in private life, dignified and firm in public life... I have no illusions that I ’ll be remembered for very long. – Judge Gorsuch	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I. Was. So. Obnoxious, i wouldn't be surprised if an obituary says, 'Gonged. He's Gonged. He's finally Gonged.' But that's not me. It's not me. – Sam Rockwell	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Social media drives a lot of it. People feel more comfortable these days sharing more of their private lives, even the parts that aren't happy or glamorous, and that's influencing how they share the news when loved ones die; it's changing the ways they reach out for support, and, as more of these very unique obituaries get publicity, it makes people realize, 'Hey, an obituary can be whatever I want it to be.'. – Raleigh News Observer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It may be too early to write a political obituary for Jim Prentice but clearly he's worried, there's a reason most governments don't run an election on a bad news budget, a budget where they raised taxes for the first time since the 1980s. – Duane Bratt	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. – George Jean Nathan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. – Brendan Behan	added by anonymous 13 years ago

When you get your own thread on Kiwi Farms it means there are enough people who are interested in engaging in a long-term harassment campaign against you, the first thing that Kiwi Farms users did when my thread opened was find the obituary for my dead father and use it to find his memorialized Facebook page.

– Clara Sorrenti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was once very difficult for me to realize that more than likely my obituary in the paper will read, 'Luke of Luke and Laura fame died today.' It was very upsetting when I came to that realization.

– Anthony Geary

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Shale can't come to the rescue and you need OPEC to prevent runaway prices, in 2015, people wrote OPEC's obituary because of shale. But now OPEC is in the driver's seat.

– Helima Croft

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The obituary for New York City has been written a lot of times, i'm a lifetime New Yorker. And I have great confidence that collectively, we will rise above this and we will drive down the crime and COVID will be in the rearview mirror. And people will return to work with both confidence and expectation of security and safety that would be consistent with their expectations and with the expectations of their employers.

– Spencer Platt/Getty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

' Why can't I do that ?' it will go down in his political obituary.

– Randy Economy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The response to the obituary has been nothing less than profound, we have had over 50 responses to this minute and they keep coming from around the world.

– De Carolis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I spent Mother's Day planning my son’s funeral, writing his obituary, instead of having breakfast or flowers or ‘ I love you mom, ’ try to imagine what it would be like and multiply that by infinity and that's kind of what it's like … there's no words. Tua, who was in sixth grade, was described as a child who loves football and has a.

– Tua Muai

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

What I try to point out is … it’s not how big your bank account balance is -- nobody ever puts that in their draft obituary -- or that they billed the most hours, or that they won the most cases. It’s how they treated other people along the way, for me, [ I think of the ] the words I read [ just ] yesterday from Increase Sumner’s tombstone. I ’d like to be remembered as a good dad, a good husband, kind and mild in private life, dignified and firm in public life... I have no illusions that I ’ll be remembered for very long.

– Judge Gorsuch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I. Was. So. Obnoxious, i wouldn't be surprised if an obituary says, 'Gonged. He's Gonged. He's finally Gonged.' But that's not me. It's not me.

– Sam Rockwell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Social media drives a lot of it. People feel more comfortable these days sharing more of their private lives, even the parts that aren't happy or glamorous, and that's influencing how they share the news when loved ones die; it's changing the ways they reach out for support, and, as more of these very unique obituaries get publicity, it makes people realize, 'Hey, an obituary can be whatever I want it to be.'.

– Raleigh News Observer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It may be too early to write a political obituary for Jim Prentice but clearly he's worried, there's a reason most governments don't run an election on a bad news budget, a budget where they raised taxes for the first time since the 1980s.

– Duane Bratt

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

– George Jean Nathan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

– Brendan Behan

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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