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.

As people age, they read obituaries more and see their contemporaries there. How they are worded says a lot about them. Consider writing your own.

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 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 ...

Warren Buffett says you should decide what you want your obituary to say and then live your life to deserve it.

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 ...

Linda Murphy, a Massachusetts woman who battled ALS, has become a posthumous viral sensation for her humorous self-written obituary. Murphy, who was raised in Framingham and lived in Boylston, passed ...

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 ...