The Speech I Want to Hear at my 100th Birthday Party

“She was a very kind person”

AJ Wood
8 min readNov 10, 2021

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Photo by Michael Fousert on Unsplash

A coworker died a while back, and over the next few days chit-chat at the water cooler revolved around the last conversation we’d had with her, the last thoughts she expressed about life and death, how and why we would miss her. And I wondered. What will others say about me when I’m dearly departed? A friend immediately piped…

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