Obituaries have been around since the Romans, as obitus in Latin means death. The form of memorializing the dead picked up in the 1800s with the rising popularity of newspapers. Obits grew from a ...

Obituaries for writer Deborah Vankin popped up online in January, complete with morbid images and flattering prose. In videos accompanying the announcements, “news anchors” discussed her death and ...

Do some checking to make sure an online obituary is legitimate and the person actually died – or that it's not a fake obituary for you. That's because scammers are using AI-generated fake obituaries ...

Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New ...

The man details his many "close calls" throughout his life, revealing the "long series of events and mishaps that looking back should have killed me long ago" -- local reports reveal how he died, as ...

Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor. In a study published in the journal ...

Ms. McMasters is the author of “The Leaving Season: A Memoir.” I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual. I’ve met a few others who do the same or ...