While it can be a useful exercise to draft one's obituary long before one needs to as a wake up call on how to better live in the present, due to COVID, the act of writing an obituary has become an ...

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When Edna Briggs dies, she doesn’t want a well-meaning loved one to whitewash the ups and downs of her life. To avoid that, she is writing her own obituary. Briggs, who is 69 and lives in Los Angeles, ...

I’m the writer in my family, which means that I am offered a great deal of unpaid work from my loved ones. If someone’s kid is applying for colleges, chances are high I’ll get an email asking if I ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you provide any tips on how to write an obituary? My dad, who has terminal cancer, has asked me to write his obituary, which will be published in the funeral program and run in ...

"The dirty little secret is, it's the best beat in American journalism," said legendary New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox. "But I'm firmly convinced the child has not been born who comes ...

WASHINGTON — Stacy Gilbert is perfectly healthy, she’s made incredible memories traveling the world and she’s raising a beautiful a 10-year-old son named Cole. The last thing on her mind on any given ...

“An obituary should be more about how someone lived versus the fact that they died,” says Victoria Chang, a Los Angeles-based poet and writer who wrote 70 obituary poems in the two weeks after her ...

On April 9, 2010, Justice Stevens announced his retirement. And on April 30, 2009, Justice Souter announced his retirement. At this point, it is safe to say that the reports of Justice Breyer's ...