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DES MOINES, IA — Little is known about how Bill Taylor died. He could have been 5 or 105. Where he lived, what he did in his life, and whether he was married or had children are left to the imagination. His obituary, published Thursday in the Des Moines Register, is one of the shortest obituaries ever published.
“Bill Taylor — he died,” it read.
A tribute from Deb Kelleher, of Fort Dodge, that summed up reaction to the abbreviated obit on social media was almost as short.
“Epic obituary,” she wrote on the newspaper’s Legacy.com site. “Rest in peace.”
Whoever Bill Taylor is, he seems to have gotten the last laugh.
“I don’t know if this was Bill’s idea or someone else but he definitely left us laughing,” Georgia Ochoa, of Altoona, wrote. “I didn’t know Bill but he brought laughter to my life today. Thank you Bill and rest in peace.”
Though short, it’s not the shortest obituary ever published.
A 2015 notice with a photo of Doug Legler in The Forum of Fargo, North Dakota, simply read “Doug died.”
His daughter, Janet Stoll, told the newspaper her father was adamant that his obituary should be short and to the point.
“He said over and over, when I die I want my obituary to just say ‘Doug Died.’ [Other people’s obituaries] would say ‘he was the president of this, a director of this’ and Dad would say, ‘What, couldn’t they hold down a job?’ “
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