This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring them what they need. Keep them warm. Listen to them rant, and cry, and tell their story over and over.
I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was ad...
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
