Is 2016 the Year of the Celebrity Death?

Is 2016 the Year of the Celebrity Death?

Article by: Linnea Crowther Linnea Crowther writes celebrity obituaries for Legacy.com, the global leader in online obituaries. After seeing dozens of Facebook posts early this year asking why so many celebrities were dying all of a sudden, she set out to determine...
Death, Redesigned

Death, Redesigned

A legendary design firm, a corporate executive, and a Buddhist-hospice director take on the end of life. There’s an ugliness - an inelegance - to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy,...

Obit for the Obits

No sense in burying the lede. This week, after more than eight years of lively habitation in one of journalism’s more obscure corners, I’m making a final egress, passing on. Starting after Friday’s deadline (ha!) I am an ex-obit writer. Here’s...