obituaries
Meaning
of Obituary
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
When 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.
I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.
He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries.
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?
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.