A Massachusetts woman wanted to make people laugh – so she wrote her own obituary

By Home - CBSNews.com Oct 2, 2025 | 12:44 PM

Linda Murphy has become a posthumous viral sensation for a tongue-in-cheek self-obituary that has been published in Massachusetts and around the nation.

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A Massachusetts woman wanted to make people laugh – so she wrote her own obituary