Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he will tell for the last time. Most are unknowns, but that doesn't mean they're nobodies. Their obituaries are sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, and chock full of life lessons as taught by the people we all pass on the street every day. And thanks to Sheeler's brilliant and compassionate prose, it's not too late to meet them.
- How to Build A Mountain : Edward 'Duke' Mallory
- Life's Lessons Learned Too Soon : Daniel Seltzer
- The Marine Who Wasn't Afraid to Cry : William B. Chapple Jr
- The Magician Who Saved His Best Trick for Last : Robert E. Schmidt
- Living in the Blink : Lois A. Engel
- A Lifetime Together; Death Four Days Apart : John and Carmella Scordo
- 'Loopie' Grows Up : Spc. Travis W. Anderson
- Quittin' Time : Wesley Denis Conda
- Swan Song for a Pioneer : Harold H. Gray
- 'Your Life Must Be So Dull' : Severin David Foley
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"A feast of lives will lived: some mundane, some comic and, yes, some tragic, but all hell-bent on fulfillment of their time in this world."
--Rocky Mountain News--
"You probably won't have heard of any of the people eulogized in Obit, but they will remind you of the variety of humans on earth and the absolute certainty that no matter how powerful a personality, eventually the body goes, and that what remains stays not only in people's hearts, but in their stories."
--Chicago Sun-Times--
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