Obsessive About Obituaries & Several Good Reasons Why

The 5 W's on my love affair with obits, including who got me started, what kind of obits I collect, where I get the obits, when I began collecting and, most importantly (maybe), why. "A life worth living is a life worth recording." ~ Jim Rohn ~~ "That's what an obit is supposed to be-a picture, a snapshot. It's not a full-length biography, it's not a portrait. It's a quick picture." ~ Alden Whitman

Sunday, July 16, 2006

A Few Good Books on Death & Dying


IN NO particular order, here is a listing from my library of some really useful books on the subject of obituaries and death & dying:
** The Obituary Book by Alden Whitman
** The Dead Beat: Lost Souls Lucky Stiffs by Marilyn Johnson
** Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch
** On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross...Kubler-Ross also wrote...Death, The Final Stage of Growth, Questions and Answers on Death and Dying, Living with Death and Dying and The Wheel of Life
** How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
** The Last Word: The New York Times Book of Obituaries and Farewells, edited by Marvin Siegel
** What a Way to Go: Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous by Adele O. Brown ** Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
** A Year to Live: How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last by Stephen Levine
** Permanent Londoners, Permanent Parisians and Permanent Italians ~~ Illustrated, Biographical Guides to the Cemeteries of London, Paris and Italy by Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall
** Condolences and Eulogies: Finding the Perfect Words by Bettyanne Gillette

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