A US man's self-written obituary has gone viral. In it he reminisces about the good times while making a few confessions, including never having earned the PhD he claimed in life.

"As it turns out, I AM the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June, 1971. I could have left that unsaid, but I wanted to get it off my chest," he said in the obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune.
"Also, I really am NOT a PhD. What happened was that the day I went to pay off my college student loan... the girl working there put my receipt into the wrong stack, and two weeks later a PhD diploma came in the mail.
"I didn't even graduate, I only had about three years of college credit. In fact, I never did even learn what the letters 'PhD' even stood for."
The 59-year-old described himself as an "artist, inventor, business man, ribald comedian, husband, brother, son, cat lover, cynic.
"I had a lot of fun," he wrote.
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"But, the one special thing that made my spirit whole, is my long love and friendship with my remarkable wife, my beloved Mary Jane. I loved her more than I have words to express."
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"Now, to make it worse, I have robbed my beloved Mary Jane of a decade or more of the two of us growing old together and laughing at all the thousands of simple things that we have come to enjoy."
He concluded: "If you knew me or not, dear reader, I am happy you got this far into my letter. I speak as a person who had a great life to look back on.
"If you knew me, remember me in your own way. If you want to live forever, then don't stop breathing, like I did."
The online obituary was linked to a memorial video on the website of a local funeral parlor -- which crashed Tuesday under the weight of people trying to log on to see more, at one point receiving 100,000 hits a minute.
Source-AFP