obit

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Crafting your obit forces you to reflect on your priorities, values and legacy.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Los Feliz resident Binkley said she read the obit aloud to her husband and two grown children, each in turn, after emailing the Slays that she considered the tribute “seriously magnificent art.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2023

In his memoir, he offered a succinct, if incomplete prediction: “I suppose the headline of my obit will read ‘Publisher of ”The Da Vinci Code” dies’.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Another possibility is that a group of gas giants had formed in a farther obit more traditional for those types of planets, but that their orbits somehow destabilized.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

When I die, if the Times gives me an obit, it’s going to be because of Butch.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman