Irreverent tributes filled with unvarnished truths and funny anecdotes, which run counter to more somber traditional ...

Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be “at her own wake,” a colleague said. By Jeré Longman Carol Saline contacted the ...

Joe Glickman, a former commercial photographer and filmmaker who now earns his living as a carpenter, spoke baby-talk to Jinx, sang folk ballads to the cat and said his range of vocalizations was a ...

Obituary writing is a stressful profession. As Gay Talese reported in his classic profile of the old-time Times obit writer Alden Whitman, Whitman had suffered a heart attack and he and his wife ...