Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
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