FRAMINGHAM, Mass. —

"Well, if you're reading this obituary, I'm dead. I died of FOMO due to complications from ALS," reads an obituary for Linda Murphy, also written by Linda Murphy.

Justine Hastings smiled as she read her mother's obituary, because she knew how much she feared missing out on life.

"She would be the one on the dance floor, starting the party; she was the party," Hastings said.

Murphy passed on Sept. 21, and her heart shone through in the obituary she wrote herself, using humor to describe how her life was impacted by an ALS diagnosis, like when she started using a respirator at night.

"We became a throuple about a year and a half ago when hose, my bipap, moved into the marital bed," Murphy wrote.

Her ALS diagnosis came in 2022, about a decade after she fought and bea

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