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“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 ...

"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 ...

Ms. McMasters is the author of “The Leaving Season: A Memoir.” I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual. I’ve met a few others who do the same or ...

In “An Obituary Is the Story of a Life Not a Death” (op-ed, Dec. 16), Danny Heitman speaks to the purpose of an obituary. I recently wrote an obituary for my husband. I can speak to the hard, mournful ...

Not all of the details he shared about his life will make it into print after he’s gone, but what I learned about him made me feel even closer to both of my parents. When my mother moved into a memory ...

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