Hubert Martini pens obituary for German newspaper in which he says his five siblings cannot attend his memorial service

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A German man has posthumously banned his relatives from attending his funeral in a newspaper notice.



Hubert Martini, who died aged 64, had his obituary published in Trierischer Volksfreund, a newspaper based in western Germany, news agency dpa reported on Friday.

In it, Martini described himself as “open, honest and unforgiving”, and said his five siblings and their families were forbidden from attending his memorial service.

It is unclear what motivated Martini to want to have the last word, but his obituary noted that in life “I have hurt some people and that’s good”.

Dpa quoted the undertaker Martina Schmidt as calling the obituary out of order. “He wanted to settle scores and now the relatives have to live with that,” she said.