Charlie died with incomplete work but without unfinished business. — Erika Kirk, 9/22/25
I think that's a great epitaph, and I'd love to earn it for my own tombstone.
You don't want to complete your work in this life—otherwise, why continue to live? But unfinished business is a very different thing.
For example, genealogical research is never completed. There's always far more to find than time in which to find it. However, leaving your work so incomplete and disorganized that after you die no one can take it over and profit from it—that's unfinished business.
I could say the same thing about the large collection of family photos that await my attention.
And several other projects.
And to think there are people who believe that being retired means time hangs heavy on one's hands!
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