Bother Quote by Lou Reed

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

I hate when someone dies and people are like Yall didn't even know him and yall saying RIP, stfu. It's called paying respect.-_-

— Dyllan

I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good…

— Robert Christgau

When someone dies, you have to do many things that mark it: telling other people, getting rid of the body, writing to the bank,…

— Michael Rosen

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

— Evan Esar

Death is a harsh reality of life.. Each of us will die one day. We don't have any control over it, we loose our…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but…

— Julian Fellowes

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

— Arthur Smith

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own…

— Anthony Kennedy

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…

— Ambrose Bierce

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

— Meghan O'Rourke