OMAHA, NE — An Omaha man's obituary, detailing his cause of death as "either leukemia or more likely being 'dead sexy,'" is the latest posthumous tribute to go viral after a grieving family member wanted more than a "just-the-facts" approach to the last words on their loved one's life.
Crystal Sauser opted to use her own words to memorialize her husband, Eric, when she felt unsatisfied while browsing funeral home obituary templates, she recently told CNN.
Obituaries historically have always done more than memorialize the life of a loved one.
Not only are obituaries the stories of life and legal notices of death, they're also a decent revenue source for newspapers, whose editors for years clung to a code that limited the superlatives a survivor might choose to describe their loved one.
However, the soaring cost of obituaries has prompted some families to forego the traditional newspaper obituary and stick to an online obituary, which in some cases can save families hundreds of dollars.
Sauser's lighthearted and heartfelt obituary for her husband, 43-year-old Eric A. Sauser, describes him as "just a rockin' dude from Omaha, NE."
The obituary goes on to explain his death, attributing it to "either leukemia or more likely being 'dead sexy.'"
Crystal and Eric were married for 13 years and had three children together, but Crystal also notes that his "departure was just in time for him to make his spiritual appearance at every Red Sox spring game."
The obituary continues, noting that "if you knew Eric, you knew you were loved, and there is a good chance he told you that – probably sober, but maybe not."
Crystal told CNN that writing the obituary came easy to her.
"It's so easy to write something like this when you love them so much," she told CNN. "Him and I were partners. We were magical."
Not all final tributes are sweet, though.
The children of Kathleen Dehmlow penned an obituary for their mother that she had abandoned her children and had an affair with her brother-in-law. The Minnesota woman "will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her," they wrote.
Others memorialized in viral obituaries in recent years include Tim Schrandt, a northeast Iowa man who "made his last inappropriate comment" on March 29, 2019, after "a short battle with cancer."
"For those of you that did meet him, we apologize, as we're sure he probably offended you," the obituary reads. "He was world-renowned for not holding back and telling it like it is."
Leslie Ray "Popeye" Charping from Texas lived "29 years longer than expected and much longer than he deserved," his 2017 obituary reads. He left behind "two relieved children" and "countless other victims," it continued, including an ex-wife, relatives, friends, neighbors, doctors, nurses, and random strangers.
Some final tributes bring scores of humor.
Joseph Heller of Essex, Connecticut, died in September 2019. A self-proclaimed prankster, Heller's viral obituary highlighted his frequent shopping trips to the Essex dump.
Heller "left his family with a house full of crap, 300 pounds of birdseed and dead houseplants that they have no idea what to do with," according to the obituary.
At other times, a remarkable life story unfolds.
The Nazis took Richard Friedemann's father. They took his mother. They robbed him of his childhood. They even managed to steal from Friedemann the part that most defined him — his Jewish heritage, hidden for decades after his escape to the United States.
How he reclaimed his heritage, and how he became one hell of an American, was the theme of an obituary about his life and his death.
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