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For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about

In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victi

What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present, based upon a study of more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930

Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human co