The use of obituaries to report the death of acquaintances became popular in the 19th century, when the appearance of printing and newspapers allowed families to communicate the deaths of their loved ones in them. Also the details of their respective funerals. Although long before, civilizations such as the Greek, Roman and Egyptian came forward with their own funeral rites, engraving their names and data on stones, to preserve the memory of their ancestors. Last Thursday, November 21, it was
“Son of Gaius Cuius and Lucrezia Cuia, widower of the vocative comma, brother of the opening question mark (deceased), the opening exclamation mark (deceased), of the twins colon after the greeting in an email (deceased) ) and the semicolon (dying)”, was the farewell message. “The little family he has left asks for a prayer for his soul and is grateful for the expressions of affection received. The burial will take place in the strictest privacy,” the letter concluded.
The next day, the label issued a new statement. “We don’t have any trouble,” they commented as an introduction to the new death, that of the word ‘eleventh’: “As they say, as a result of the stab wounds inflicted on him by his brother Eleventh and his putative brother, Eleventh, during the course of “a family quarrel.” The author of the ironic obituaries is Alfonso Castán, editor of Contraseña, who explains to this newspaper that its origin was two other publications that he found on social networks, in which a writer and an English teacher commented that the ‘whose’ had been lost.
They indicated that it seemed that “people had forgotten” about the term and the idea occurred to them, to “tell it gracefully,” to do it as if it were an obituary. The editor is in charge of the company’s social networks: “Small publishers don’t have the press offices of the big ones, so we have to make a living on networks,” he points out, hence adding “jokes” and other “occurrences” that expand the story of their profiles beyond the promotion of their books. Currently, they have about 20,000 followers on X and 2,000 on Bluesky.
The housing problem
Beyond the information on the disused words in question, Casán has been providing other spelling data, also as a result of the response that the publications were receiving – the first tweet accumulated nearly 400,000 views, 1,000 retweets and 5,000 likes. –. After some people “missed the full stop” in some of his sentences, he clarified: “In this type of text (centered paragraphs and separation by a white line or several) it is not necessary to put it.”
The great reception of the tweet about ‘whose’ motivated me to continue the series with ‘eleventh’. Subsequently, he decided to politicize his initiative one step further with the ‘tabuco’ obituary, which he expressly dedicated to “the owners who bleed their tenants, to the owners of tourist rentals and, in general, to all those who have made it necessary to have a decent home “In this country it is an odyssey.” “Please read article 47 of the Constitution for your soul,” he asks.
The editor comments that tabuco was a word that was used in the 19th century: “Galdós used it a lot.” “It refers to a very small room and I wanted to allude to terms that are now used to sell hovels for a fortune: ‘the apartment for singles’ or ‘the ideal storage room to become independent’,” he describes in the death note that According to the responses he received, he detected that it raised some blisters. “The more people see something, the easier it is for someone to come in discouraged,” he laments.
A prayer for unfulfilled purposes in 2024
Caspán continued with his particular series of obituaries, to address the demise of ‘scientific knowledge’ on social networks, “despite the efforts of many people.” This time, he included among his relatives “his wife, the University, and his children, the CSIC, the Aemet, the Spanish Association of Vaccinology.”
“The popularizers of history who have never set foot in an archive in their lives, the flat earthers, the creationists, the anti-vaccines, the deniers, the conspiracy theorists and the talkers who think about climate change and do not distinguish a cirrus from a cumulonimbus, participate with their friends. of such a joyful loss,” he added in the communication. In it he announced that this group of people would perform at the party scheduled for last Sunday, in which the Chemtrails [vieja teoría de la conspiración, desmontada una y otra vez por la ciencia, que vinculan las estelas que dejan las aeronaves con supuestos daños sobre la salud y el medioambiente].
The last – for the moment – published obituary is of the ‘good resolutions for the year 2024’, whom he has defined as “parents of Signing up for a gym. Read the UlyssesPlay sports, Learn English, Quit smoking, Read the QuixoteRead the Divine ComedyDiet, Learn German, Spend more time with family” and more. “His children ask for a prayer for his soul and hope that The Good Purposes for 2025 will adopt them,” he points out at the end.
“How many good resolutions do we not normally fulfill? Almost all of us do a lot and at the end of January we already realize that we are not going to fulfill them,” says Alfonso Castán. The editor, who jokes that his publications “are going to look like ABC’s obituary sessions,” assures that he has been creating them based on what has “occurred to him.” Their plan is to “take a break,” which may not happen if they continue to come up with new ideas to increase their ingenious collection of death notes.
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