The Living Obituary
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Everyone gets one.
Almost no one gets to read it.
Edit your obituary by living differently.
What is your full name?
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It is not too late.
The interview takes twenty minutes.
Take it seriously.
When it is over, you will read what almost no one gets to read.
The writer is taking appointments for the first sittings.
Leave your email address. You will be written to.
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The writer will hold your place. A letter will carry the way back.
The document is alive. It revises as you do.
Leave the address where revisions are sent.
MMXXVI · The date stays open · The Protocol
Should a subject die, their document is sealed as written — nothing added,
nothing polished. It is released only to the person the subject named, or to no one.
The writer does not finish sentences the subject did not finish.
Until that day — and there is no hurry — the date stays open.