Online resting place for broken heartsby Ula Ilnytzky
Associated Press Writer / February 14, 2008
NEW YORK—If the love affair is dead, why not give it a proper send-off?
more stories like thisA new Web site offers the lovelorn a way to bury memories of an old love affair -- by writing an obituary.
Relationshipobit.com is the brainchild of Kathleen Horan, a 38-year-old reporter for WNYC public radio.
She recalled that after a two-year relationship fizzled she found it "oddly comforting" to write her father's obituary. It made her think that if she wrote an obituary for her relationship, it might help her move on.
"It was a goofy thing to do, but it made it feel real so I could finally cremate the thing and move on," she said in an interview Wednesday.
Boston GlobeI can't believe no one has thought of this before. Start a thread here "relationship obituary" and see how many google hits you get.
