Bob CollinsI don’t know if you can see the video of what happened around Keller Park last night, Facebook settings being what they are and all, but it was a pretty astounding statement that a man who took his own life last fall mattered, and his loss is a loss for us all. Read more →
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Tag: The art of the obituary
A blistering essay from the ex-wife of Scott Weiland on Monday was aimed straight at the heart of the music culture, music critics and fans who celebrate their drugged and inebriated heroes.
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Today’s obit section reveals another poignant piece of writing. This time, unlike some of the other obituaries we’ve highlighted over the years, the compelling part is just a single line at the end of an obituary for a gentleman who died of Alzheimer’s.
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Thomas D. Donnelly, of Geneva, Minn., died on Tuesday. But he was known by a different name — ‘Digger’. He dug graves. He was also Tom Tom the Leprechaun, the mascot of the Minnesota RollerGirls. Read more →
If the obituary scandal out of Richmond isn’t a sign of the times, I really don’t know what is. Read more →
We must be getting somewhere in our continuing focus on obituaries that reveal a truer life than who someone worked for because multiple people have sent me Dorothy McElhaney’s final tribute today. Read more →
The family of Coleen Sheran Singer didn’t hold back when it came to her obituary, which appears this week in the Bangor (Maine) Daily News.
She died on Christmas morning; it’s not clear why her obituary didn’t appear until this week. Read more →
‘She liked four letter words as much as she loved her rock garden and trust us she LOVED to weed that garden with us as her helpers, when child labour was legal or so we were told. ‘ Read more →
We suppose there are worse ways to mourn than with a generous dose of laughter.
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Douglas Legler’s obituary in today’s Fargo Forum is shorter than his name, the paper notes.
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The Austin American Statesman reminds us that a life well lived can consist of running from a subpoena, a schoolteacher named Fancy, and integrating the record store business in a Texas town. Mary Dodd Stalling, 91, died peacefully on May 30, 2015. Born November 21, 1923, she was adopted into the Dodd family and raised Read more →
We have limitless admiration today for the family of Clay Shephard, whose obituary in the Raleigh News and Observer this week was an honest assessment of his death. He died from a drug overdose.
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Molly Park’s family was in a terrible position when they wrote words to live by for the rest of us. They had to write the Maine 24-year-old’s obituary and decide just how honest they had to be about her life. She was addicted to heroin. Read more →
Given the climate in this country, it might not be a bad idea to keep politics out of an obituary. Read more →
Stuart Schumacher finds something new every time he reads a recent obituary for a 4-year-old boy. The boy’s name was Evan, and Schumacher wrote the obituary in the hours after he lost his son. Read more →