Remembering Remarkable Lives Lost in 2007
Jan 1st, 2008 · Talk of the Nation reached out to our colleagues at NPR and asked them to remind us of exceptional people whose obituaries didn't make front-page headlines this year.
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Eulogizing the Not-So-Dear Departed ***
Aug 29th, 2007 · Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, discusses the challenge of writing obituaries for people who don't leave behind nice legacies. Last week, Wroe penned the obit for the so-called "Queen of Mean," billionaire real estate heiress Leona Helmsley.
Smaller Lives That Made Big Differences
Jan 1st, 2007 · In 2006, plenty of obituaries made the front page, from a former president to the Godfather of Soul. But hidden deeper in the newspaper were people who quietly made a difference in fields like jazz, ecology, and civil rights. We look back at more modest lives that made a difference.
Helping Fellow Retirees Write their Own Obits
Aug 26th, 2005 · An active senior citizen at Leisure World, a city-sized retirement community in Orange County, Calif., has volunteered to help his fellow residents write their own obituaries. Rob Schmitz of member station KPCC reports that it's a difficult, touchy and often humorous exercise.
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