As for the rest of us left behind, I hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again.' I hope she is finally at peace with herself.

But I truly believe at the end of the day ALL of us will really only miss what we never had, a good and kind mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. We may have some fond memories of her and perhaps we will think of those times too. 'Her family will remember Dolores and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. Over 10 years ago, in the summer of 2008, Dolores Aguilar passed away and was immortalized not for her good deeds and kindness, but for the pain she inflicted on her family: This obituary has even been plagiarized and used as a template for another mean obituary years later. Though obituaries haven't always been complimentary, but obituaries archived online have only become a common practice in the last 15 years or so.

Unfortunately, the bad blood did not end with the death of the Dehmlow matriarch, as the obituary ends: 'She will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her.' The short and sweet notice leaves no question about the mark Kathleen Dehmlow left on her children, and forms part of her permanent legacy.ĭolores Aguilar's obituary is the 'original' mean obituary. At first, it seems like a typical newspaper death notice: 'She married Dennis Dehmlow in 1957 and had two children Gina and Jay.'īut then the story moves into darker territory when it becomes clear that the deceased woman had become 'pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle Dehmlow and moved to California.' Written by her children, the obituary turns from a simple accounting of a life, to a brutally honest description of a family that was torn apart by an affair. Her children wrote the blistering obituary begins like many others, with her birth. The most recent mean obituary to go viral tells the story of Kathleen Dehmlow. However, these 5 families couldn't bring themselves to gloss over unhappy family dynamics. When it comes to memorializing the dead, surviving family members are likely to be complimentary, even when their relationship with the deceased person was strained. No one is perfect, but there are some people who make it very difficult to love them. The decisions we make every day determine the ways in which we'll be remembered.

When someone is remembered more for their bad deeds and characteristics than their good ones, sometimes their survivor remembers them with a mean obituary.

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