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 ...

PFEIFFER: When a death is unexpected, like when a news-maker dies at an unusually young age, it can be a scramble to put together an obituary. Other times, writing an obit is a decades-long process.

CULPEPER, Virginia -- I don’t mean to rush things, but there are good reasons you might write about the person you were when you were alive, well before your obituary is actually needed. Frivolous ...

When most people think of death notices, they imagine dry, formulaic paragraphs. These seem to be written by an undertaker with a thesaurus. But, there’s a hidden world that sees this as a form of ...

When my husband's grandfather died at the age of 96, he had already had taken care of an essential matter of business: He had prewritten his obituary. Maybe it was because he was private and ...

Writing an obituary isn’t an easy task. That’s an understatement — it’s incredibly painful, usually expensive too. But someone has to do it. Or perhaps not. Consider leaving it to AI. That’s the pitch ...

*Meet Ja’han Jones. He’s a writer had an epiphany earlier this year when he noticed that 197 black people had already been killed by police. He knew he could very well be one of them, so he wrote his ...

Longtime Chicago Sun-Times staffer Maureen O'Donnell served her last day Friday as the obituary writer for the publication. Though she will no longer be full time, O'Donnell says she will continue to ...