Comedic actor and director Carl Reiner begins his day the same way lots of folks do. “Every morning, I pick up my newspaper, get the obituary section and see if I’m listed. If I’m not, I have my ...

An obituary for a woman who recently passed away in her Harrisburg, Pennsylvania home has gone viral for making people laugh out loud while sobbing. This is all thanks to the woman’s daughter, a New ...

On Monday, The New York Times ran a correction on the obituary it published for the late William G. McLoughlin. McLoughlin died in December 1992, making the correction 13 years in coming. Robert ...

To prepare for the death of a prominent figure like Queen Elizabeth II, The Times works on an obituary in advance. Jeff Roth, who manages The Times’s clippings library, dug through Elizabeth’s files.

A new report by a watchdog group traces the ad exchanges profiting off low-quality obituaries riddled with disturbing errors. A new report by a watchdog group traces the ad exchanges profiting off low ...

After Chris Connors died earlier this month, his family made sure to get the last laugh. In their local Maine newspaper, Connors, 64, was remembered in his obituary as a "Ladies man, game slayer, and ...

An award-winning feature writer had one last poignant story to tell before his death. Ken Fuson, a former reporter at the Des Moines Register and Baltimore Sun, wrote his own memorable obituary before ...

The fallout from the return to campuses has already begun for some colleges like the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. They announced plans on Tuesday to move classes online for the next two weeks ...

An obituary for a woman who recently passed away in her Harrisburg home has gone viral for making people laugh out loud while sobbing. This is all thanks to the woman’s daughter, a New York Times ...