Dan-rather Quote by Laurie Nadel

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're…

— Marilyn Johnson

Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about…

— Iyanla Vanzant

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

— Peter Utley

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

Everyday I live, I am writing my obituary.

— Myles Munroe

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

— David Levithan

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

— Walter Cronkite

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were…

— Roz Savage

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

— Charles Wheelan

“I wrote something for my local newspaper, but nobody read it because it got buried in the obituary section.”

— Jarod Kintz

“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.”

— Quentin Crisp

“I want to leave behind something worth more than obituary posters when I am gone.”

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu