FUN AND GAMES Writing Prompt

Write Your Own Obituary

Don’t Let THEM Have All The Fun!

I was listening to a podcast the other day, as I do every day. This wasn’t a TED talk though. This was “Metaphysical Milkshake,” on Luminary.

I’ll listen to most anything once, to give it a chance. But if it’s too long or too boring, I may not keep on with it.

But this one was funny, since at the end, the co-hosts had written, and were reading their obituaries.

They weren’t writing their own obituaries. They were writing an obituary for each other. They were very funny.

It inspired me to write this post. And create a writing challenge for you all. Write your own obit. Or write it for someone you are very close to. Write it for your favorite MuddyUm crew mate!

And what better time to write an obituary than in the midst of a pandemic?

So to get you all started, I’ll write mine first.

Susan Brearley, also known as Captain B., died yesterday, peacefully, on board her sailboat. She was 256 years old. Cause of death was recorded as synth braincase meltdown*.

Born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1957, her life accomplishments included gaining her advanced degrees in Psychology and Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the age of 64. She then went on to receive her Ph.D. in Memetical Pedagogy.

At the age of 65 she obtained her first round of VC for her Women’s network, Garden of Neuro which went on over the next 40 years to revolutionize the face of social media, by inspiring the hearts and minds of the women on the planet.

After turning 110, she purchased the Hearst and Murdock holdings, making them part of the MuddyUm empire, which was the beneficiary of the early Medium.com initiative. This was a first generation social media experiment that came out of the early Twitter work co-founded by Ev Williams.

Once MuddyUm took over that first media space and converted it from a space of animosity to frivolity, it was an easy business acquisition to take on the foundational legacy networks from prehistoric media skeletons. Today’s Sapiens population owes its good humor to the work that MuddyUm established in the early years of the millennium.

Humorists thinking outside of the traditional constructs were in large part responsible for the current day solutions that allowed humans to reverse climate change, and key to influencing strategic direction of current day MuddyUm subsidiary, AGAP Corp.

The Memetic AIs that came out of the follow on AGAP work, fashioned today’s braincase to house the ever increasing Sapiens brain size.

There are 2 grandchildren surviving, born prior to the standing Singularity Dictate of 2042.

There are no great grandchildren, but there are surviving advanced memetic beings around the globe who count Brearley as their founder and Original Pattern Generator — The OPG.

On Brearley’s departure from the earth, she whispered, “It’s still 42.”

*Braincase 11.02 was on recall by AmazaGoogApp Corp [AGAP Corp.] Online datalogs reported a backlevel and continual refusal to upgrade to new mcode versions over a prolonged period, and the Brearley braincase melted. Let this be a warning to you all. Real death can happen if you don’t do your upgrades. This is an Obituary PSA from AGAP Corp.

Susan B. is an entrepreneur, writer, editor, poet and ship captain. Come find her in the Garden.