Christian Sprang began collecting unusual obituaries when he was a student. Today, he has thousands of them. And anyone who examines them will notice that how we deal with death has changed, especially in recent years.
They’re funny, surprising, and personal. Increasingly, obituaries are deviating from the forms they followed for so long. In this book, Christian Sprang and Matthias Nöllke present the most unusual ones. They are about funerals (“No pie-chomping”), memorable hobbies (“You often got on our nerves with your tomatoes”), and last conversations (“One more thing: It wasn’t me who put you in a home.”). They are by friends (“Whenever we smell cabbage rolls, we think of Herbert”) – and sometimes by the deceased themselves (“I have left this beautiful, hunchbacked world”).
