Snow Melt

My Obituary

The March 12, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Write your own obituary. It can be for ten, twenty, or however many years you choose from now, or it can be for tomorrow - it's your choice.

Neva Florence Darbe, who wrote under the pseudonyms Prosperous Snow and Poet 999, was born in Blackwell, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, December 24, 1946 at eleven minutes before midnight. Ms. Snow, as everyone at the Writer's Retirement Village knew her, ascended into the next world on Monday, December 24, 2046, at approximately eleven minutes before midnight. She was laughing so hard at a joke she read online that the undertaker has been unable to get the smile off her face; unfortunately, Ms. Snow requested a closed casket funeral so those attending will not be able to see her last smile.

At her 99th birthday celebration on December 24, 2045, she was ask what she attributed her long life to she said: "Daily prayer, meditation on the Baha'i scriptures, 15 of laughter, writing, and drinking, at least three cups of, hot black whole bean coffee. Plus being too stubborn to die before my 100th birthday." Ms. Snow joined writing.com on October 31, 2002, when it was known as stories.com, has been an active or semi-active member ever since.

Ms. Snow's most notable achievements were the ability to cook anything in a Microwave oven, to laugh at life instead of crying, and the inability to give up no matter how difficult the path or huge the roadblocks. Other achievements consisted in writing several books of poetry and editing a collection of poem's written by her mother.

Beneath this granite headstone rests,
A writer who felt extremely blessed.

Food for thought: Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. - Billy Sunday