Summary of Life |
An obituary, barely 75 words, attempts to capture the vastness of a human life: their beginnings, their bonds, their triumphs, and their final rites. Sixty or seventy years distilled into a paragraph. Not the desires they chased or the routines they rushed through, but the essence they ultimately left behind.
Obituaries teach us something deeper: they are not a record of how we lived each day, but how we will be remembered. These words once echoed through a gathering of young professionals, CEOs, and celebrities—people who had accumulated wealth and status yet felt an unsettling hollowness. They had all come seeking wisdom from an old monk known for helping people rediscover purpose. On the first morning, seated cross-legged on a stone bench beside an ancient temple, the monk began with a story that left everyone silent.
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Years ago, he said, Alfred Nobel experienced something few people ever do: he read his own obituary. When Nobel’s brother, Ludvig, died in 1888, a French newspaper mistakenly published Alfred’s obituary instead. The headline read: “The Merchant of Death Is Dead.” It condemned him as the man who enabled mass........