Why a bizarre obituary for a 74-year-old Texas dad went viral

One family honors their father’s legacy in a unique and fun way.

after Robert Adolf Böhm He died October 6 at the age of 74 after his son fell in his apartment in Clarendon, Texas Charles Baum He kept wondering how to write his obituary. After some research online about what to do, he decided to match the energy his father felt while he was alive.

“There are some people who might think it was insulting and offensive, but I think it seems perfect,” Charles said. The Washington Post In an interview published on October 16. “For me, that pretty much describes my father.”

In the comic ObituaryThe 41-year-old described his father as “God’s problem now”.

He wrote: “Robert Adolf Boehm, in keeping with his lifelong devotion to his own personal brand of fitness, muttered his final incomprehensible and likely unnecessary curse on October 6, 2024, shortly before tripping again due to ‘stupid motherf***** *ing thing “and hit his head on the ground.”