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OT: Perhaps the greatest obituary of all time

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Print obituaries cost money. You pay for length. So for someone to pay $$$$$ for this moving tribute to Renay, she must've been loved, despite her very numerous flaws.

We should all be so lucky to have loving children like Andy.

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RENAY MANDEL CORREN Obituary | 2025 - 2021 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

View RENAY MANDEL CORREN's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 101 tribute posts from the community.
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A for effort
C+ for execution. There's funny and then there's trying too hard to be funny.
 
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I just want to know how you stumbled onto this. Just reading the obits in Pittsburgh for the heck of it?
 
CL82 said:
I just want to know how you stumbled onto this. Just reading the obits in Pittsburgh for the heck of it?
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It was in yahoo news today. Funny stuff
 
CL82 said:
I just want to know how you stumbled onto this. Just reading the obits in Pittsburgh for the heck of it?
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As it was written in the obit, you eventually reach an age where you start the day by reading the obits and if your name isn't in it, you are having a good day.
 
CL82 said:
I just want to know how you stumbled onto this. Just reading the obits in Pittsburgh for the heck of it?
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Fair question. I don't, but apparently someone on r/pittsburgh does. Saw it posted there this morning.

Although I will note that once my mother fully retired at about the same age I am now, the obits were the first page she turned to. The odds that you know someone in there increase each year ;)
 
CL82 said:
I just want to know how you stumbled onto this. Just reading the obits in Pittsburgh for the heck of it?
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I'm pretty sure he lives in Pittsburgh, or at least in the area.
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
He's at about the age when checking for your own name at the beginning of the day is common practice. You'll see.

EDIT: Hat tip to @Chin Diesel
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Like many, I don't even read a newspaper anymore. These days I typically learn about deaths of former co-workers via LinkedIn, of relatives through Christmas cards, and of friends back in CT through email.
 
Chin Diesel said:
As it was written in the obit, you eventually reach an age where you start the day by reading the obits and if your name isn't in it, you are having a good day.
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Or, as in the case of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), after reading his own obituary (I believe in the Hartford Courant) wrote a rebuttal: "Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated".
 
With her sense of humor as described, sounds like she might have enjoyed reading it. Wonder if he wrote it in advance and showed it to her?
 
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"There will be much mourning in the many glamorous locales she went bankrupt in: McKeesport, PA, Renay's birthplace and where she first fell in love with ham, and atheism; Fayetteville and Kill Devil Hills, NC, where Renay's dreams, credit rating and marriage are all buried; and of course Miami, FL, where Renay's parents, uncles, aunts, and eternal hopes of all Miami Dolphins fans everywhere, are all buried pretty deep. Renay was preceded in death by Don Shula."

guffaw!!!!
 
I think it's more about self-promotion by the son who wrote it, than a tribute to her. The image of a woman in her 80s rolling joints made me laugh though.
 
Kolumbo said:
We liked this one better.

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WAYNE OLEXA Obituary | 1945 - 2021 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

View WAYNE OLEXA's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 10 tribute posts from the community.
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I have to say nothing in the Renay obit made me laugh as hard as the opening sentence in this one:

"Wayne Olexa, 76, of Crafton PA, formerly of Swissvale, PA, passed away on Sunday, November 14, 2021, after a long bout with the Steelers"
 
UCTitleTown said:
I think it's more about self-promotion by the son who wrote it, than a tribute to her. The image of a woman in her 80s rolling joints made me laugh though.
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“She’s got that palsy shake so she puts in a real lot of weed.”
 
Chin Diesel said:
As it was written in the obit, you eventually reach an age where you start the day by reading the obits and if your name isn't in it, you are having a good day.
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I’ve said that for years. The only reason I buy the rag Courant online is to make sure that my name isn’t in the obits
 
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gtcam said:
I’ve said that for years. The only reason I buy the rag Courant online is to make sure that my name isn’t in the obits
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A friend called me one day and asked me how I was feeling. I said fine and asked why?. He said check out page 27 in the paper and sure enough there was a big freaking obit with my name on it. The weird part was it had several of the same family member names and the guy lived like maybe 15 minutes away from where I do.
 
CL82 said:
A friend called me one day and asked me how I was feeling. I said fine and asked why?. He said check out page 27 in the paper and sure enough there was a big freaking obit with my name on it. The weird part was it had several of the same family member names and the guy lived like maybe 15 minutes away from where I do.
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I daily look at the obits online for my area, and I am always amazed that many times, the longer obits with the professional accomplishments and accolades for the deceased persons, have only a few condolence replies.

When I see the obits for people I grew up with or went to school with, it makes me glad my name isn't there yet.

The older you get, the more people you know, will make the page.

It amazes me when an ex-spouse, is not mentioned where the obit lists the death of a woman who is a mother and omits the name of the father of the children. The obit mentions her children and grandchildren and their spouses if any, but in many cases, not the name of the father of her own children. I guess they were divorced. If so, there must have been bitter feelings there, but the surviving ex-spouse was still the father of the children so why not mention him? And, if he dies before her, why not state that?

Well, maybe the kids blamed him for the divorce or for abusing their mother. IDK.

Interesting to see a high school teacher who you had forgotten about, and then you see he or she lived to 100. The obits online now show celebrities who have passed away.
 
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