America is full of cons these days. There's ComicCon, SantaCon, CatCon, even balloon artists get together at BalloonCon. And then there's ObitCon, filled with a lively bunch of obituary writers, ...

Six years ago, filmmaker Vanessa Gould wrote to a half-dozen newspapers around the world with the news that Eric Joisel, the origami artist who was the subject of her first documentary, Between the ...

There’s the old saying that you die twice: once when your physical body expires and then when the last person remembers you. For the Obituary desk at the New York Times, their job is memorialize those ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It isn’t every day someone gets to write their own obituary. Let alone one filled with this much wit and humor. But Gary Wolfelt knew one day soon he’d be meeting his maker. He’d had ...

One year at Christmas, Mary McGreevy’s family went around the table and shared headlines for their obituaries. McGreevy’s mother, who worked as a journalist, journalism professor and later a personal ...