necrology
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The film is, in a sense, a necrology—a catalog of death—that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering.
How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.
From Washington Post
One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition.
From Literature
Whitman’s name doesn’t come up in Vanessa Gould’s “Obit,” a documentary about The Times’s necrology team at work.
From New York Times
This week The New York Times Magazine publishes The Lives They Lived, its annual necrology — or “death yearbook,” as Jenna puts it.
From New York Times
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