I am the editor of The Globe and Mail’s editorial obituaries, which are articles written by journalists about public figures.

“Well,” the wife said, “let me help you out. I’ll tell you what not to write. Do not say I was the life of the party, that my smile lit up a room, or that I never met a stranger. Those phrases, while ...

A Manitoba woman is calling for a ban on third-party websites that aggregate obituaries publicly shared online.

In one of the last pictures taken of Carol Sauer, she’s sitting at the Arlington bus stop where she often spent her time. It ...

Newspaper owner who took on the print unions and in 1986 launched Today, Britain’s first full-colour daily ...

And eight chaotic years (or more?) as president (assuming he makes it that far) guarantee him a monster (and I do indeed use that word advisedly) set of obituaries when he dies, whereas almost a ...

Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump’s and my own. At 79, he’s just slightly ...

The writer lived in the Borders and excelled in historical novels which merged the personal and political.

– Donn Bunte, Jr. ( Bubba), age 68, passed suddenly as the result of a construction accident. Born on July 23, 1957, in King ...

Brandon Michael Brown, age 37, died peacefully at home. He was born in San Luis Obispo, CA, on Nov. 18, 1988, to Jeb Brown, [ ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

New platform combines secure document storage, AI-powered obituary writing, and digital memorials in response to the ...