Announcement Quote by Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

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

— Jarod Kintz

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the…

— Simon Brett

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Peter Utley

“Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it…

— Laurie Nadel

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

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is…

— Tom Rachman

“I have found the funerals of friends less harrowing than the auctioning off of their property: a unique and loveable nature, already contracted to…

— James Buchan

“I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,’ a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they…

— Joe Biden

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

— Lou Holtz

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

— Arthur Smith