The joke used to be that the obits desk at a newspaper was where old journalists went to die. Writing obituaries was seen in the news business as a punishment, not something people wanted to do. But ...

They say everyone dies twice: once when they take their last breath, and again when their name is spoken aloud for the last time. The heartfelt and unshakable new documentary Obit, a profile of the ...

At The New York Times, the obituary beat is no career dead-end. By THR Staff Last year, Tribeca brought us Very Semi-Serious, an inside look at a staple of NYC’s media world (the cartoons of The New ...

I’m the writer in my family, which means that I am offered a great deal of unpaid work from my loved ones. If someone’s kid is applying for colleges, chances are high I’ll get an email asking if I ...

To hear her son tell it, Renay Corren was plus-sized. A redneck. A grifter. Larry King's ex-girlfriend? And now, thanks to one of the most outlandish obituaries ever written, the entire Internet is ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It isn’t every day someone gets to write their own obituary. Let alone one filled with this much wit and humor. But Gary Wolfelt knew one day soon he’d be meeting his maker. He’d had ...