necrology

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How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021

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 • Apr. 25, 2017

I mean, no Rivette in the necrology montage?

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2016

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 "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Long ago the measure has been taken for my coffin and for my necrology, but I die so slowly that the process is tedious for me as well as my friends. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan