News4JAX spoke to the man who said he wrote the obituary and asked him why he decided to write it the way he did. Here's what he said.
Editor’s Note: News4JAX has made the decision to remove the name of the father and the son who wrote the obituary from this story because we were not able to independently verify the claims made or contact other family members.– After the death of his father last month, a Jacksonville man decided to publish what he said is a brutally honest obituary about him and publish it in the Florida Times-Union newspaper.“[My father] was born in Belmont, NY, on April 16, 1941.
“I’ve gotten to a point in my life where I did a lot of soul searching and trying to heal and get better you know, because of all of the abuse that I had throughout my childhood and then even as adults being, you know, neglected or having anything to do with me,” the son told News4JAX. “And so part of my healing process about a year ago was to write his obituary, and I wrote it. And after I was done, I was really proud of it.
The obituary goes on to say his father spent over 20 years as a police officer in New York and his time there was “negligent at best.” The obituary notes that his father claimed to be sober for 30 years, but added he never tried to make amends with his children.“It will be challenging to miss [the father] because he was narcissistic,” it reads. “He was incapable of love. [The father’s] passing proves that evil does eventually die, and it marks a time of healing, which will allow his children to get the closure they deserve. [The father] can be remembered for being a father to many, and a dad to none.
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