Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can you provide any tips on how to write an obituary? My dad, who has terminal cancer, has asked me to write ...

While it can be a useful exercise to draft one's obituary long before one needs to as a wake up call on how to better live in the present, due to COVID, the act of writing an obituary has become an ...

Writing the obituary of someone you love is more than sharing the specifics about their final arrangements. It’s an opportunity to capture the essence of a life, to pay tribute to accomplishments and ...

In this photo taken Sept. 22, 2016, Jim Weber, of Tumwater, Wash., poses for a photo with the third draft of his self-authored obituary, in Olympia, Wash. Weber, 60, said he began working on the ...

On a Monday evening in September, seven people gather at the Rhizome, a house that has been converted into a community arts space in Washington, D.C. They range in age from late 20s to early 70s, and ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you provide any tips on how to write an obituary? My dad, who has terminal cancer, has asked me to write his obituary, which will be published in the funeral program and run in ...

I’m of a certain age where I am more likely to be sitting on the back row at a funeral than reprising the Macarena at a wedding. I’m also old enough to have a cultivated regard for how things ought to ...

Journalist Heather Lende lives in the small town of Haines, Alaska, where the population is about 2,000. She’s written obituaries for almost 20 years at the Chilkat Valley News. In doing so, she’s ...