An obituary may well be the hardest thing to write. It has to be composed in a hurry during a period of bereavement. Those closest to the person who died may not be in a condition to write it. The ...

Ironically, one of the best tools for living a good life can be the announcement of its termination: the obituary. Especially if you write your own obituary yourself. Here’s why: Life is propulsive.

Two days after Jeff Fargo’s mother died, he lay in bed, crying, at home in Nevada and opened his laptop to ChatGPT. Her friends had asked about an obituary, so for nearly an hour he typed about her ...

BRAIDWOOD, IL — Retired Will County Sheriff's Lt. Lynnsey Jean "Lynn" Jencon, who was well-known and highly respected by her peers at the sheriff's office, did not leave it up to a funeral home to ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband of almost 40 years is not well. He has been a good provider, but his life stories are heavily laced with lies. That has been very difficult for me to live with. I believe he will ...