Look up the word "obituary" and you get this: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography.
Those unbelievably tacky ads you see in The Manila Bulletin (why do they need those borders?!), those that people over the age of 50 read everyday, those are not obits. Those are "death notices". Those really poignant one pagers that the NYT churns out when someone like Bob Hope dies (seconds after a death is announced), those are obits.
I'm working on mine (because I want it be perfect and funny and will make you want to cry). So far here's what I have:
The sometimes funny, oftentimes grumpy lawyer Jona B. is dead at 104.
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