of Obituary
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. Don DeLillo
I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day. Robert A. Heinlein
Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime. Robert A. Heinlein
He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries. Robert Charles Wilson
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? Christopher Hitchens
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance. Billy Collins