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 ...

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 our local newspaper ...

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 ...

We know it's not easy to write an obituary. You're probably grieving, and it can be hard to know exactly what's important to include or what to say to honor your loved one's memory. Take a deep breath ...

An obituary may well be the hardest thing to write. It has to be composed in a hurry during a period of bereavement. Those closest to the person who died may not be in a condition to write it. The ...

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 ...

Can you provide any tips on how to write your own obituary? At age 80, I am in the process of preplanning my funeral and would also like to take a crack at writing my own newspaper obit too. For many ...

Questions and Answers about Obituaries. Click on question to go to answer. Advertisement Article continues below this ad In The New Canaan Advertiser, an obituary is either a news obituary or a paid ...

Join Kate Favaro to learn about the basics of writing an obituary. She offers tips to make it more special, uses prompts to practice, and reviews resources for more information.

Vartabedian has what it takes to teach this free three-part class. He has spent 50 years covering every beat and writing hundreds of "super-obits," or special tribute obituaries. He bases each one on ...

When I was in high school a teacher asked our class to each write an autobiography. I recall it being kind of an odd assignment given that as teenagers, what content could there possibly be to write ...