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 ...

Ms. McMasters is the author of “The Leaving Season: A Memoir.” I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual. I’ve met a few others who do the same or ...

Apr. 19—CHIPPEWA FALLS — CeCelia Zorn urges people to plan ahead and write their own obituaries, and make them personal. "I can't over-emphasize how much you need to think ahead, put it in writing, ...

Have you ever thought about writing your own obituary? I remember doing it a number of years ago at a personal growth event. It is a rather sobering activity, to say the least. But this exercise was ...

Can you provide any tips on how to write your own obituary? At age 80, I am in the process of preplanning my funeral and would also like to take a crack at writing my own newspaper obit too. For many ...

Kalister Green-Byrd, 81, said she struggled with writing her own obituary because she felt she was boasting about her life. Born in Decatur, Alabama, the second-oldest of 14 children, Green-Byrd noted ...

Ironically, one of the best tools for living a good life can be the announcement of its termination: the obituary. Especially if you write your own obituary yourself. Here’s why: Life is propulsive.

Here are a few simple reflections that seem perhaps appropriate for this period that involves occasionally fatal virus attacks. We had a very good friend who, several years ago, talked us into writing ...

"You have to include that," Vartabedian said. "Your daughter made history." Kilister Gree-Byrd laughs as long-time Haverhill Gazette reporter Tom Vartabedian reads aloud from her self-written obituary ...