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 my husband's grandfather died at the age of 96, he had already had taken care of an essential matter of business: He had prewritten his obituary. Maybe it was because he was private and ...

*Meet Ja’han Jones. He’s a writer had an epiphany earlier this year when he noticed that 197 black people had already been killed by police. He knew he could very well be one of them, so he wrote his ...