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 ...

"As American novelist Anne Lamott famously said, 'If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved ...

When his grandmother died about two years ago, Jebar King, the writer of his family, was tasked with drafting her obituary. But King had never written one before and didn’t know where to start. The ...

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 ...

She will not be missed, thus reads the concluding sentence in one of the most jaw-dropping obituaries we've ever read. The obituary for Kathleen Dehmlow starts innocently enough, that she was born ...

Editor's note: This editorial mentions suicide and overdose. Jonathan Nalikka was one of my close friends in high school. I remember him as the boy standing by my kitchen sink with yellow rubber ...

*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 ...

“I wanted to do right by their families, and leave a historical record ensuring that their full lives, and not just their passing, were recorded and remembered.” In June, the writer Lore Segal, who ...