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How obituaries got a jolt of new life in the Internet era
Boomer nostalgia and sense of mortality add up to huge readership numbers when a celebrity dies — and competitive obit writers are increasingly stocking up in advance.
7 Care Tips for When Someone You Love Is Dying
Tips to help make the end of life care process smoother and more peaceful for everyone involved.
Why Newspaper Obituaries Are So Valuable for Genealogy Research
When it comes to researching family history, the obit is a treasure trove of information.
What Obituaries Are Trying to Tell Us About Veterans and PTSD
What does it mean to die from PTSD? These veterans' families want us to know.
How Reading (and Writing) Obituaries Can Improve Your Fiction
Great characters are the heart and soul of every great novel. And even though I’ve published three novels, I struggle every time with how to make my characters real—rich, multi-dimensional, relatab…
Bringing the dead to life… Why novelists should read obituaries
Many years ago, my writer friend Cathryn Atkinson told me she found inspiration for characters by reading obituaries, especially those in the Daily Telegraph. By gum she was right, and I was soon c…
10 obituaries for those who love to laugh
Obituaries tell the story of everyone’s life. Some are insightful, some are sentimental. And then there are those obituaries that have us laughing out loud.
How to remain hopeful at the end of your life
People approach the loss of a life in different ways. Many never consider that they can choose an attitude toward dying.
'A deluge of death': how reading obituaries can humanise a crisis
Those brief features have long provided readers with a moment of connection that help us stay in touch with our humanity
What does it take to have successful end of life conversations?
Everyone suffers when communication fails at the end of life. Though we may know what to do in difficult situations; anxiety and bias close us down.
The exhausting steps of the internet’s celebrity death reaction cycle
There has always been a collective grieving process for the death of beloved celebrities, but Twitter created a sped-up, frenzied way of announcing and reacting to death
