Real Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Real Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. An obituary for a 74-year-old man who died after falling and hitting his head has gone viral, with his son writing he is “God’s problem now”.
Texas man Robert Adolph Boehm died on October 6 and his son, Charles, wanted to commemorate the man he had known — and give his dad one last chance to make his neighbours laugh. He had never written an obituary before, he told the Washington Post , and — like everyone who is unsure how to do something in 2024 — turned to Google for help. Charles stumbled across one that sounded similar to the way his father lived his life and decided he wanted to make his dad’s obituary as funny as possible.
“Robert Adolph Boehm, in accordance with his lifelong dedication to his own personal brand of decorum, muttered his last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse on October 6, 2024, shortly before tripping backward over ‘some stupid bleeping thing’ and hitting his head on the floor,” the obituary read. Robert died on October 6. His son Charles wrote his obituary.
Picture: Boehm Family via DignityMemorial.com He joked that his Catholic father managed to get his mother pregnant three times in five years, allowing him to avoid getting drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. “Much later, with Robert possibly concerned about the brewing conflict in Grenada, Charles was born in 1983,” Charles wrote.
“This lack of military ser.