Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can you provide any tips on how to write an obituary? My dad, who has terminal cancer, has asked me to write ...

While it can be a useful exercise to draft one's obituary long before one needs to as a wake up call on how to better live in the present, due to COVID, the act of writing an obituary has become an ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you provide any tips on how to write an obituary? My dad, who has terminal cancer, has asked me to write his obituary, which will be published in the funeral program and run in ...

On a Monday evening in September, seven people gather at the Rhizome, a house that has been converted into a community arts space in Washington, D.C. They range in age from late 20s to early 70s, and ...

Ms. McMasters is the author of “The Leaving Season: A Memoir.” I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual. I’ve met a few others who do the same or ...

Re “Why I Write My Obituary Every Year,” by Kelly McMasters (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 29): I felt so connected to Ms. McMasters’s essay. Like her, I started this ritual when I was a child. Back then ...

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 ...

Writing an obituary isn't an easy task. That's an understatement -- it's incredibly painful, usually expensive too. But someone has to do it. Or perhaps not. Consider leaving it to AI. That's the ...

WASHINGTON — Stacy Gilbert is perfectly healthy, she’s made incredible memories traveling the world and she’s raising a beautiful a 10-year-old son named Cole. The last thing on her mind on any given ...