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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Short biography of someone who recently died</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable"><span>Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Obit_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Obit (disambiguation)">Obit (disambiguation)</a>,&#32;<a href="/wiki/Necrology_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Necrology (disambiguation)">Necrology (disambiguation)</a>&#44;&#32;and&#32;<a href="/wiki/Obituary_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Obituary (disambiguation)">Obituary (disambiguation)</a>.</span> <span>"Death notice" redirects here. For the withdrawal of documents by news or photo agencies, see <a href="/wiki/Kill_notice" class="mw-redirect" title="Kill notice">Kill notice</a>.</span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Louis_Julius_Freudenberg_I_(1894%E2%80%931918)_composite_obituary_in_the_Hudson_Observer_on_November_22,_1918.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Louis_Julius_Freudenberg_I_%281894%E2%80%931918%29_composite_obituary_in_the_Hudson_Observer_on_November_22%2C_1918.jpg/170px-Louis_Julius_Freudenberg_I_%281894%E2%80%931918%29_composite_obituary_in_the_Hudson_Observer_on_November_22%2C_1918.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="480" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Louis_Julius_Freudenberg_I_%281894%E2%80%931918%29_composite_obituary_in_the_Hudson_Observer_on_November_22%2C_1918.jpg/255px-Louis_Julius_Freudenberg_I_%281894%E2%80%931918%29_composite_obituary_in_the_Hudson_Observer_on_November_22%2C_1918.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Louis_Julius_Freudenberg_I_%281894%E2%80%931918%29_composite_obituary_in_the_Hudson_Observer_on_November_22%2C_1918.jpg 2x" data-file-width="301" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>American obituary for <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">WWI</a> death</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ObituariesontheWall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ObituariesontheWall.jpg/250px-ObituariesontheWall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ObituariesontheWall.jpg/330px-ObituariesontheWall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ObituariesontheWall.jpg/500px-ObituariesontheWall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="696" /></a><figcaption>Traditional street obituary notes in <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>obituary</b> (<b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obit#Etymology_2" class="extiw" title="wikt:obit">obit</a></b> for short) is an <a href="/wiki/Article_(publishing)" title="Article (publishing)">article</a> about a recently <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">deceased</a> person.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Newspapers often publish obituaries as <a href="/wiki/Article_(publishing)" title="Article (publishing)">news articles</a>. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farndale" title="Nigel Farndale">Nigel Farndale</a>, the Obituaries Editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, obituaries ought to be "balanced accounts" written in a "deadpan" style, and should not read like a <a href="/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">hagiography</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In local newspapers, an obituary may be published for any local resident upon death. A <b>necrology</b> is a register or list of records of the deaths of people related to a particular organization, group or field, which may only contain the sparsest details, or small obituaries. Historical necrologies can be important sources of information. </p><p>Two types of paid advertisements are related to obituaries. One, known as a <b>death notice</b>, usually appears in the Births, Marriages and Deaths (BMD) section of a paper and omits most biographical details and may be a legally required <a href="/wiki/Public_notice" title="Public notice">public notice</a> under some circumstances. The other type, a paid <b>memorial advertisement</b>, is usually written by family members or friends, perhaps with assistance from a <a href="/wiki/Funeral_home" title="Funeral home">funeral home</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Both types of paid advertisements are usually run as <a href="/wiki/Classified_advertising" title="Classified advertising">classified advertisements.</a> </p><p>The word also applies to the entire <a href="/wiki/Programme_(booklet)" title="Programme (booklet)">program</a> booklet for a funeral and the part of that program describing the life of the deceased. It is given to those who attend the service. The verso page heading may be <i>Obituary</i> or <i>Reflections</i>, the recto heading is usually <i>Order of Service</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Obituaries are a notable feature of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i>, which publishes one full-page obituary per week, reflecting on the subject's life and influence on world history. Past subjects have ranged from <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a> to <a href="/wiki/Uday_Hussein" title="Uday Hussein">Uday Hussein</a> to <a href="/wiki/George_Floyd" title="George Floyd">George Floyd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a></i> publish <a href="/wiki/Anthologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthologies">anthologies</a> of obituaries under a common theme, such as military obituaries, sports obituaries, heroes and adventurers, entertainers, rogues, eccentric lives, etc. </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/British_Medical_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="British Medical Journal">British Medical Journal</a></i> encourages doctors to write their own obituaries for publication after their death.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>For numerous summer seasons, <a href="/wiki/CBC_Radio_One" title="CBC Radio One">CBC Radio One</a> has run <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_(CBC_radio)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Show (CBC radio)">The Late Show</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Radio_documentary" title="Radio documentary">radio documentary</a> series which presents extended obituaries of interesting <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadians</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prewritten_obituaries">Prewritten obituaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Prewritten obituaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg/250px-Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg/330px-Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg/500px-Traueranzeige_Loriot_Lieber_Gott_viel_Spass.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2676" data-file-height="3712" /></a><figcaption>When the deceased person was very well known, the notice is sometimes written in an unconventional manner. The above was published after the death of <a href="/wiki/Loriot" title="Loriot">Loriot</a>, a highly popular German <a href="/wiki/Humorist" title="Humorist">humorist</a>, director and actor, by the German <a href="/wiki/Art_Directors_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Art Directors Club">Art Directors Club</a>. The text simply means "Dear God, have fun!".</figcaption></figure> <p>Many news organizations maintain prewritten (or preedited video) obituaries on file for notable individuals who are still living, in order to promptly publish detailed, authoritative, and lengthy obituaries upon their deaths. These are also known as "advance" obituaries.<sup id="cite_ref-Breeden_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breeden-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <i>Los Angeles Times</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">&#39;</span> obituary of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a>, for example, was written in 1999 after three months of research, then often updated before the actress' 2011 death.<sup id="cite_ref-woo20110323_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-woo20110323-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>'</i> obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic <a href="/wiki/Mel_Gussow" title="Mel Gussow">Mel Gussow</a>, who died in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-gussow20110323_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gussow20110323-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The 2023 obituary of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a> featured reporting by <a href="/wiki/Michael_T._Kaufman" title="Michael T. Kaufman">Michael T. Kaufman</a>, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing in 2021, Paul Farhi of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> observed that while once a "sleepy corner of journalism", publications in the Internet age have invested more resources in preparing advance obituaries for rapid publication online, in order to meet widespread public interest; obituaries can attract millions of readers online within days of their subjects' deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhi-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> maintains a "deep reservoir" of advance obituaries, estimated to stand at roughly 1,850 as of 2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhi-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dunlap_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunlap-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The paper often interviews notables specifically for their obituaries, a practice begun by <a href="/wiki/Alden_Whitman" title="Alden Whitman">Alden Whitman</a> in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunlap_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunlap-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, <i>The Washington Post</i> has about 900 advance obituaries on file, and entertainment publication <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a></i> has prepared 800 advances for notable figures in the film and television industry.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhi-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An advance obituary is usually not written until the subject has reached old age, as the earlier a profile is written, the more additions and revisions it will likely require.<sup id="cite_ref-Farndale_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farndale-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Former <i>New York Times</i> obituary writer <a href="/wiki/Margalit_Fox" title="Margalit Fox">Margalit Fox</a> wrote that "as a general rule, when lives are long enough, accomplished enough and complex enough that we would just as soon not get caught short writing them on deadline, advances are assigned".<sup id="cite_ref-Fox_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fox-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Consequently, many public figures who die unexpectedly or prematurely will have no obituary available at a given publication, and journalists will be left to research and write lengthy articles on short notice.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhi-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dunlap_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunlap-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, Farhi noted that advance obituaries of younger people will occasionally be prepared if they are known to have health problems or "chaotic lives"; <i>The Washington Post</i> had an advance obituary for singer <a href="/wiki/Amy_Winehouse" title="Amy Winehouse">Amy Winehouse</a>, whose struggles with substance abuse were widely chronicled before her death at age 27.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhi-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In another case, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farndale" title="Nigel Farndale">Nigel Farndale</a>, an obituaries editor for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, said that in April 2020, when news broke that then-British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> was in an <a href="/wiki/Intensive_care_unit" title="Intensive care unit">intensive care unit</a> with <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> during <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">the pandemic</a>, he was under considerable pressure to quickly prepare an obituary that could be immediately published if Johnson died from the disease.<sup id="cite_ref-Farndale_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farndale-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Still, for particularly major figures, advance obituaries may be drafted early in their lives and revised constantly throughout the following years or decades. <a href="/wiki/Bill_McDonald_(American_journalist)" title="Bill McDonald (American journalist)">Bill McDonald</a>, obituaries editor of <i>The New York Times</i>, estimated in 2016 that <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>'s obituary "cost us more <a href="/wiki/Man-hour" title="Man-hour">man/woman hours</a> over the years than any piece we've ever run". Work on it began in 1959, and it went through many subsequent iterations. Well into the 21st century, the visual layout for the obituary was substantially modified to match changes in the paper's page size, and a presentation for its digital edition cycled through different slideshow and video formats to match advances in Internet download speeds.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The newspaper began drafting an obituary for Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> when she was still <a href="/wiki/Heir_apparent" title="Heir apparent">heir apparent</a>, and it was rewritten in its entirety multiple times until her death in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Premature_obituaries">Premature obituaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Premature obituaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a more comprehensive list, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries" class="mw-redirect" title="List of premature obituaries">List of premature obituaries</a>.</div> <p>A premature obituary is a false reporting of the death of a person who is still alive. It may occur due to unexpected survival of someone who was close to death. Other reasons for such publication might be miscommunication between newspapers, family members, and the <a href="/wiki/Funeral_home" title="Funeral home">funeral home</a>, often resulting in embarrassment for everyone involved. </p><p>In November 2020, <a href="/wiki/Radio_France_Internationale" title="Radio France Internationale">Radio France Internationale</a> accidentally published about 100 prewritten obituaries for celebrities such as <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a>. The premature publication was blamed on a transition to a new <a href="/wiki/Content_management_system" title="Content management system">content management system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Breeden_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breeden-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Irish author <a href="/wiki/Brendan_Behan" title="Brendan Behan">Brendan Behan</a> said, "there is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary." In this regard, some people seek to have an unsuspecting newspaper editor publish a premature death notice or obituary as a malicious hoax, perhaps to gain revenge on the "deceased". To that end, nearly all newspapers now have policies requiring that death notices come from a reliable source (such as a <a href="/wiki/Funeral_home" title="Funeral home">funeral home</a>), though even this has not stopped some pranksters such as <a href="/wiki/Alan_Abel" title="Alan Abel">Alan Abel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eulogy" title="Eulogy">Eulogy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Funeral" title="Funeral">Funeral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festschrift" title="Festschrift">Gedenkschrift</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_deaths_by_year" title="Lists of deaths by year">Lists of deaths by year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_people_by_cause_of_death" title="Lists of people by cause of death">Lists of people by cause of death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/He_never_married" title="He never married">He never married</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Oak Park: Marion Street Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-933338-02-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-933338-02-4"><bdi>1-933338-02-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Life+on+the+Death+Beat%3A+A+Handbook+for+Obituary+Writers&amp;rft.place=Oak+Park&amp;rft.pub=Marion+Street+Press&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=1-933338-02-4&amp;rft.aulast=Baranick&amp;rft.aufirst=Alana&amp;rft.au=Sheeler%2C+Jim&amp;rft.au=Miller%2C+Stephen&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flifeondeathbeat00alan&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AObituary" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBarker2019" class="citation book cs1">Barker, Nicolas (2019). <i>At First, All Went Well ... Et Other Brief Lives</i>. London: Bernard Quaritch. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780995519213" title="Special:BookSources/9780995519213"><bdi>9780995519213</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=At+First%2C+All+Went+Well+...+Et+Other+Brief+Lives&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pub=Bernard+Quaritch&amp;rft.date=2019&amp;rft.isbn=9780995519213&amp;rft.aulast=Barker&amp;rft.aufirst=Nicolas&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AObituary" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJohnson2007" class="citation book cs1">Johnson, Marilyn (2007). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/deadbeat00mari"><i>The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, And The Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries</i></a></span>. New York: Harper Perennial. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-075876-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-075876-9"><bdi>978-0-06-075876-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Dead+Beat%3A+Lost+Souls%2C+Lucky+Stiffs%2C+And+The+Perverse+Pleasure+of+Obituaries&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pub=Harper+Perennial&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-06-075876-9&amp;rft.aulast=Johnson&amp;rft.aufirst=Marilyn&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdeadbeat00mari&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AObituary" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMassingberd2001" class="citation book cs1">Massingberd, Hugh (2001). <i>Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper</i>. London: Macmillan. p.&#160;245. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-333-69287-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-333-69287-X"><bdi>0-333-69287-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Daydream+Believer%3A+Confessions+of+a+Hero-Worshipper&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=245&amp;rft.pub=Macmillan&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=0-333-69287-X&amp;rft.aulast=Massingberd&amp;rft.aufirst=Hugh&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AObituary" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obituary&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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title="Skeletonization">Skeletonization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">Fossilization</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Preservation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cryopreservation" title="Cryopreservation">Cryopreservation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cryonics" title="Cryonics">Cryonics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neuropreservation" class="mw-redirect" title="Neuropreservation">Neuropreservation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Embalming" title="Embalming">Embalming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maceration_(bone)" title="Maceration (bone)">Maceration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mummy" title="Mummy">Mummification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plastination" title="Plastination">Plastination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosection" title="Prosection">Prosection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxidermy" title="Taxidermy">Taxidermy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Disposal_of_human_corpses" title="Disposal of human corpses">Disposal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burial" title="Burial">Burial</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Natural_burial" title="Natural burial">Natural burial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sky_burial" title="Sky burial">Sky burial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cremation" title="Cremation">Cremation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dismemberment" title="Dismemberment">Dismemberment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Excarnation" title="Excarnation">Excarnation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Promession" title="Promession">Promession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disposal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alkaline hydrolysis (body disposal)">Resomation</a></li></ul> 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