Obituary that remarks on the Thorn Birds author’s weight and ‘plain’ features greeted with distaste on social media
A churlish obituary for much-loved Australian author Colleen McCullough has attracted scorn on social media, spurring users to speculate on how their own life’s achievements might be backhandedly remembered.
In Friday’s edition of the Australian, the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds – which sold 30m copies worldwide – is remembered as “plain of feature, and certainly overweight, [but] nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth” in the first paragraph.
My @Australian obit: "Susan, who had an unattractive pointy nose & crooked teeth, was nevertheless a fiction writer of books.."
She was too female for a cartoonist. #myozobituary
He had a great face for radio. #myozobituary
Despite being an overweight homosexual with no fashion sense, he was nonetheless a moderately successful arts journalist. #myozobituary
Short & dumpy with an extra chin, she nevertheless wrote books novels & articles & was occasionally allowed 2 appear on telly #myozobituary
She was short, ethnic and had a voice that carried. Despite this, she managed to finish university. #myozobituary
Despite being a small-minded, insular twerp, he found employment as a small-minded insular obituary writing twerp #myozobituary
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