Brother’s heart-wrenchingly honest obit for 76-year-old sibling’s hard, lonely life goes viral: ‘He didn’t fit in’

Brother’s heart-wrenchingly honest obit for 76-year-old sibling’s hard, lonely life goes viral: ‘He didn’t fit in’

New York Post·2023-08-12 20:01

Brian Eldridge’s brother wanted the world to know about his misunderstood sibling’s heartbreaking and lonely life after he died alone in his Minnesota apartment — so he wrote a brutally honest obituary.

“Brian was a quiet shy boy and man. He was bullied as a child and teenager because of his shyness and vulnerability. As an adult he didn’t fit in. He never learned to use a computer or a cell phone, which kept him from applying for most jobs,” Steve Eldridge wrote in the obituary, published in Minnesota’s Pioneer Press on Sunday.

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