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Obituaries are a notable feature of The Economist, which publishes precisely one full-page obituary per week, reflecting on the subject's life and influence on world history. Past subjects have ranged from Ray Charles to Uday Hussein.
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The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries. It is distributed FREELY, often twice a day by email, and usually has over 2500 entries a day. You can search the database anytime with the search engine above.
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By definition, obituaries should always be posthumous. But occasionally obituaries are published, either accidentally or intentionally, while the person concerned is still alive. Most are due to hoaxes, confusions between people with similar names, or the unexpected survival of someone who was close to death. Some others are published because of miscommunication between newspapers, family members and the funeral home, often resulting in embarrassment for everyone involved.
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With a simple upgrade now being installed free for users of Continental’s premier software product, The Director’s Assistant for Windows, funeral directors can send obituaries to Arrangeonline.com with a single mouse click. Arrangeonline.com already has nearly 10 million historical death records online, and it expects to add millions more as more funeral homes upload the files from their local hard drives.
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[One] site is Mydeathspace.com, a website set up by a 26-year-old clerk from California that provides obituaries of MySpace users. These tend to be young people who have died in car accidents, of drug overdoses or committed suicide, and the advertising-funded site is aimed at providing a warning to young people.
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In 2006, Bill McDonald of the New York Times answered readers' questions about obituaries as part of the Times's Talk to the Newsroom feature. He confirmed that the Times had over 1,200 obituaries on file, some written as far back as 1982. He ... said that the Times's policy was to always give the cause of death when available and, since the publication of a premature obituary for Katharine Sergava, to also always identify the person who advised the newspaper of the death. The hope was that attribution would reduce the chance of another embarrassing and (to the family) painful error. [2]
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