What is it with obituaries?

I have a major peeve about obituaries. It concerns the people who place the damn obits in the paper. They write the thing so it's a paean to them! Why, pray tell, is the largest paragraph in the obituary a list of the people who "survived" the dead guy? Why should an obituary be an opportunity to list healthy people in the person's family? They didn't die; the dead guy died. Shouldn't the obituary be about him?

Wherever we look, even in obituaries, we see self-important twits.

Gadhafi: "It's all about me"

From AP:

A Russian newspaper is quoting the Kremlin's special envoy to Libya as saying Moammar Gadhafi has threatened to blow up Tripoli if it falls into rebel hands.

This is the same mindset that causes a certain, idiotic breed of men to kill their families because they lost a job. What self-important idiots these men are. Similarly, if Gadhafi must go, he feels a need to destroy Tripoli. It's a case of X chromosomes gone mad.

But then, there are so many self-important people these days, and of both genders. It's all about them. We should give them their own holiday. They'd like that. How about "Self-Important Twit Day"?