Walter George Bruhl Jr.’s ‘spirit was released from his worn-out shell of a body,’ which means his wife can finally buy that mink coat. The Delaware grandpa's self-written obituary has gone viral after his grandson posted it to Reddit.




Walter Bruhl Jr., right, with his grandson Sam Bruhl. The grandfather was 'preceded in death by his tonsils and adenoids in 1935; a spinal disc in 1974; a large piece of his thyroid gland in 1988; and his prostate on March 27, 2000.'


Walter George Bruhl Jr. is dead.

“He is no more; he is bereft of life; he is deceased; he has rung down the curtain and gone to join the choir invisible; he has expired and gone to meet his maker,” reads the obituary of the grandpa, who was from Delaware but had retired to Florida.

Instead of treating death as something to be frightened of, Bruhl was ready and prepared. Grandson Sam Bruhl said the 80-year-old “cut out the middleman” and wrote his own obituary just before he “drifted off this mortal coil” Sunday. Walter even printed it out and left it in a conspicuous place so that his family would discover it.

“I read through it and I was crying and laughing,” Sam told The News. “It really shows his humor and his wit and wisdom about life.”

Walter was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War. He apparently chose this path “because of Hollywood propaganda.” He returned from the war to work in manufacturing and eventually
started his own contract business in Newark, N.J., and Dewey Beach, Del. He died in Florida on March 9.

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