The Best Obituary Ever

I had been thinking about writing about the misery and idiocy that is our twice annual time change for a couple of weeks. As farmers who do the exact same thing at the exact same time every day, week in and week out, we really suffer each year...both directions.

Then Mike Huckabee shared the obituary of Harry Stamps of Long Beach, Mississippi, on Facebook one morning. It is perhaps the best obituary ever, written by the good gentleman's daughters who obviously loved all that he was. As such things sometimes do today it went viral almost instantly.

It seemed to offer the perfect kick off and finishing punch for a column containing some facts and figures on the havoc wreaked by messing around with the circadian rhythms and sleep patterns of already stressed and weary folks. If you care to Google around, you will see that heart attacks, work-related injuries, car accidents, and even suicides spike on the days immediately following our spring forward nonsense.

I hope you will read it and spare a thought for Mr. Harry Weathersby Stamps and the family who loved him.

Perhaps you will also let the powers that be know that America is tired of such pointless meddling in our lives. After all, Daylight Savings, and Standard times are supposedly swapped around to save energy.

With the sun so scarce and attenuated in the winter, everybody turns the lights on anyhow.....so let's save lives and health and stop the nonsense. Give Congress something productive to do, such as repealing the time change.