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“Arguably, being the subject of a Times obituary, itself, is a measure of immortality.”
“They are not about death.”
“One of his rules was that no one could see their advance obituary.”
“The verdicts, you understand: that is the danger line.” Obituaries, I’m often reminded, are mini-biographies.”
“As the science fiction writer Robert A.”
“What happens after you die?”
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“The Art of the Obit by Sam Roberts is available from Bloomsbury Publishing.”
““I think that living forever would be a terrible thing,” I quoted her in the obit as saying.”
““I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work,” Woody Allen declared.”
“There was still time though, he opined, for him to prevail upon ambivalent obituarists, whether they needed his personal perspective.”
“But does the prospect of one for yourself, the prospect of post-mortem rewards or recriminations, affect our behavior before we die?”
“What worried him, he acknowledged publicly, was “the light which the obituarist shall throw upon them, the meanings which he shall dress them in, the conclusions which he shall draw from them, and the judgments which he shall deliver upon them.”
“It’s one question I’ve never asked when interviewing the scores of nearly-departed people I’ve profiled for advance obituaries in The New York Times .”
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