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Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
An individual obituary should be evaluated for bias in the same way as any other historical source, using the methods normally used by professional historians to evaluate historical sources for bias. Janice Hume, the author of a study of 8,000 American obituaries published between 1818 and 1930, claimed in a subsequent article that obituaries ...
"How shameful it is that I, who could not die in so many battles, should have been saved for the ignominious death of a cow! At least clothe me in my impenetrable breastplate, gird me with my sword, place my helmet on my head, my shield in my left hand, my gilded battle-axe in my right, that I, the bravest of soldiers, may die like a soldier."
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead in North Dakota printed an obituary for local resident Douglas Legler with two simple words: Doug died. One man kept his obituary very simple with just 2 words Skip to ...
Meanwhile, the 2023 obituary for Harrelson's older brother William, 73, began with the line: “The world may not be as funny of a place for a little bit as we had to say goodbye to William ...
I could mention the names of many that it would please me if I could read their obituaries in the paper in the morning,” Darrow said in a 1922 speech before the Illinois Conference on Public ...
The following is a list of last words uttered by notable individuals during the 20th century (1901-2000). A typical entry will report information in the following order: Last word(s), name and short description, date of death, circumstances around their death (if applicable), and a reference.
Epitaph on the base of the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι-(epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') [1] [2] is a short text honoring a deceased person.