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• n  a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

• Day after Miss Breazing's death, the Lexington Herald ran her obit on the front page.
• A series of failed humor magazines, as several obit writers put it.
• When they're writing your obit while you're still alive, it's hard to have a good time.

• obituary
• necrology

News & Articles

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• OBIT- Mabel Rolf
  Mabel S. Rolf, 92, of Cologne went to be with her Lord Jesus on June 5, at her daughter’s home … The post OBIT- Mabel Rolf appeared first on Sun Patriot .
  June 12, 2013 - Waconia Patriot
• OBIT – Mildred A. Wischnack
  Mildred A. Wischnack, 96, of New Germany passed away Sunday at the St. Mary’s Care Center in Winsted. Mildred Alma … The post OBIT – Mildred A. Wischnack appeared first on Sun Patriot .
  June 12, 2013 - Waconia Patriot
• John Holden drove this 1941 Lincoln Continental to work
  You've probably read John Holden's self-written obituary, which went viral on Facebook and Twitter, by now.The 93-year-old World War II fighter pilot, former ad man and onetime toy designer wrote about his life of "endless laughter and debauchery" before dying in an accidental fall May 27 at Willow ...
  June 10, 2013 - Lancaster Online

Quotes

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• Gordon Gee in Baltimore Sun
  Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us,Vanderbilt chancellor Gordon Gee said. "The obit was Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the...
• Phil Donahue in East Bay Express
  As even Nader's friend and supporter Phil Donahue concludes, "It's going to be the first line of his obit."
• Beck in News Hounds (blog)
  I'm not here to judge: but let's not whitewash somebody's history,Beck said self-importantly. "If I saw him playing the fiddle one more time (as part of a television obit), I was going to explode: Could we spend a hair more time less with...