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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Patriot-News reporter T.W. Burger will be a guest on WITF-FM's "Radio Smart Talk" from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday. Burger and "Grim Reader" writer Michael Schaffer will join host Scott LaMar to talk about ...

In “An Obituary Is the Story of a Life Not a Death” (op-ed, Dec. 16), Danny Heitman speaks to the purpose of an obituary. I recently wrote an obituary for my husband. I can speak to the hard, mournful ...

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 ...

Linda Murphy, a Massachusetts woman who battled ALS, has become a posthumous viral sensation for her humorous self-written obituary.

*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 ...