Funeral director Victor Sweeney has written hundreds of obituaries, but the one he rewrites each year is his own — a practice that helps him reflect on his priorities.
"Each year, my obituary gets shorter and shorter," the 33-year-old tells CNBC Make It.
"It's not that I'm doing less, but that there are fewer and fewer things that truly matter."
Sweeney lives in Warren, Minnesota, a small 1,600-person town 70 miles south of the Canadian border, with his wife and four children, and earns $87,000 a year as a funeral director and mortician.
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