How would you like the world to remember you when you go to the other side?
Even though people usually have a photograph or a few lines about them in their obituary, Renay Mandel Corren’s son had something else in mind.
The obituary, written by her son, said: “the bawdy, fertile, redheaded matriarch of a sprawling Jewish-Mexican-Redneck American family has kicked it.”
“Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren at the impossible old age of 84 is newsworthy to me, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she had for, well, nothing.”
“A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX was not to be found.” – it went on.
The obituary was shared on Twitter by user Sarah Weinman, and its safe to say that it gained a lot of attention:
This obit, my god. https://t.co/tWoTdUIAnN
— Sarah Weinman (@sarahw) December 15, 2021
You could not anticipate the next word if you tried. pic.twitter.com/Vv3Hkd8iuf
— Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) December 16, 2021
Andy Corren, the man who wrote the obituary – and son of Renay Mandel Corren – said that he wrote it with his mother’s irreverence for the world.
He said that there was something so unapologetic about his mom’s type of being and grit that was just completely without guile.
Andy Corren needs a presidential medal of freedom for this obituary of his mom, Renay Mandel Corren.
“Renay lied a lot. But on the plus side, Renay didn’t cook, she didn’t clean, and she was lousy with money, too … We thought Renay could not be killed.”https://t.co/xYhMJHpru0
— Amy Kuperinsky (@AmyKup) December 16, 2021
You could not anticipate the next word if you tried. pic.twitter.com/Vv3Hkd8iuf
— Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) December 16, 2021
Source: comicsands
