You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. If you want to pen your own obituary, one route is to look for workshops ...

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 ...

CULPEPER, Virginia -- I don’t mean to rush things, but there are good reasons you might write about the person you were when you were alive, well before your obituary is actually needed. Frivolous ...

Can you provide any tips on how to write your own obituary? At age 80, I am in the process of preplanning my funeral and would also like to take a crack at writing my own newspaper obit too. For many ...

Before you die, consider who'll have the last word, says author James R. Hagerty. One idea is to write your own obituary. Intimidating? You bet. Especially if you don't think of yourself as a writer, ...

Kalister Green-Byrd, 81, said she struggled with writing her own obituary because she felt she was boasting about her life. Born in Decatur, Alabama, the second-oldest of 14 children, Green-Byrd noted ...

For many people, writing their own obituary can be a nice way to sum up their life, not to mention avoid any possible mistakes that sometimes occur when obituaries are hurriedly written at the time of ...