Obituaries have been around since the Romans, as obitus in Latin means death. The form of memorializing the dead picked up in the 1800s with the rising popularity of newspapers. Obits grew from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.