On the eve of Christmas 2007, quite a few obituaries for incandescent light bulbs were penned.
Writing obituaries may not be rocket science, but it can certainly be a tricky business.
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The first, a bucket list (you know the drill) and the other, to write our own obituaries.
He was, as the eulogies and obituaries portrayed him, a considerate, straightforward individual, with core values of honesty and courage.
In one of the Steve Jobs obituaries there is this reference to the backdated options scandal at Apple.
Stephens was forced to use newspaper obituaries for the study because state vital statistics were unavailable to him at the time.
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Hometown newspapers used to publish obituaries that stuck to the basic facts: age, cause of death, survivors and plans for memorial services.
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When Ms. Gray passed away last February, obituaries ran across the globe and Ms. Rogers was left to steer the ship alone.
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Users can also peruse more than 150 supplementary texts, ranging from reference works to contemporary reviews of Darwin's books, obituaries and recollections.
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Similarly, Starck - who has written obituaries for British, American and Australian publications - says academics and business leaders can be hard work.
But Twitter was also the place to find more illuminating information - from links to obituaries to data about the UK's economic record under the Thatcher premiership.
But Lentini stumbled upon what could be a solution for anyone worried about how he or she will be branded after death: Some had written their own obituaries.
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As I say, many others will be doing full obituaries.
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Originally from Wisconsin, Mr. Friess was a reporter in his younger days, writing obituaries and covering weddings for a weekly paper in Rice Lake with a circulation of 5, 000.
Publications routinely write obituaries for public figures ahead of time, but rarely do they escape the confines of editing and make it into print before the subject is actually dead.
The courage Roger has shown these last years as he has fought his own illnesses -- you can read the details of what he went through in the formal obituaries.
The obituaries lauding the accomplishments of Norman Joseph Woodland, co-inventor of the bar code, also offer a cold rebuke of the man who claimed the same thing about himself: Jerome Lemelson.
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According to several high-profile obituaries, including the BBC, Reuters, the London Times and The Guardian, Hazlehurst, at the age of 72, also penned "Reach, " a 2000 hit for UK pop combo S Club 7.
When they got a match to a surname, the researchers ran numerous Internet searches to collect data on each individual's family tree, including obituaries, which often list the names of a deceased's family members.
Obituaries as slogans or taglines for personal brands.
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Obituaries focused on Kirkland's turbulent 16-year presidency of the AFL-CIO, but to say that he was only a labor leader would be akin to saying that Winston Churchill was merely a former British prime minister.
Bob Chaundy, former obituaries editor at BBC News, says there used to be a convention in obits, particularly in print, that you didn't speak ill of the dead, but that went by the wayside by the 1980s.
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Mr. HARRIS: Well, look, if you live long enough, almost everybody can get a little bit of a burnished, warm, fuzzy reputation, and we saw this in some of the obituaries, sort of, you know, Jesse Helms, pillar of conservatism.
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