A man in Germany uses his death to come to terms with family disagreements.
Differences within families can sometimes be settled while others are carried right to the end but a German man named Hubert Martini decided to carry things to extremes as the Guardian reported in "Last slights: man writes own obituary banning relatives from funeral."
Most people tend to minimize their differences with family members and not look for disagreements that could hurt other family members. However, there are some people who just cannot do that.
Hubert Martini was definitely not one to let conflicts with family members go do he wrote his own obituary, which was dutifully printed by a newspaper when he passed away. In it Martini wrote that his five siblings and their families were all banned from his memorial service.
While most people do not go so far as to ban certain relatives from their funerals, the desire to take shots at disliked family members is not all that rare. Many people have sought to do so in their wills or by creating separate documents that should be distributed at their deaths to air their last grievances with family members.
The problem? This often creates discord in the family and hurts even those family members who are not mentioned negatively. People who want to use their deaths to settle scores should first consider whether they really do want other family members to take the collateral damage.
Reference: Guardian (July 1, 2016) "Last slights: man writes own obituary banning relatives from funeral
