When my mother-in-law passed away earlier this year, my brother-in-law spent hours painstakingly crafting her obituary. It was a labor of love, done in the midst of grief. He could have been helped by ...

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 ...

When most people think of death notices, they imagine dry, formulaic paragraphs. These seem to be written by an undertaker with a thesaurus. But, there’s a hidden world that sees this as a form of ...

When someone close to us dies, part of our life goes missing. We grieve our loss and mend in time — not “restored” to past unbrokenness, but recreated for a changed reality. What about facing the ...

“I wanted to do right by their families, and leave a historical record ensuring that their full lives, and not just their passing, were recorded and remembered.” In June, the writer Lore Segal, who ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The funeral director said “AI” as if it were a normal element of memorial services, like caskets or flowers. Of all places, I had not expected artificial ...

When prominent people pass away, NPR reporters go on the airwaves as soon as possible to encapsulate what are often complicated lives. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT) MICHEL MARTIN: Former Vice ...

What would happen if your company ceased to exist? Would journalists write headlines heralding your past achievements, or would their stories simply add you to a list of bygones? Would analysts ...