I’ve met a few others who do the same or something similar. A teacher I know likes to start every new year by writing her obituary or what she hopes it will look like by year’s end.

Some years have proven too difficult: She skipped 2002 because she was in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The obituary also went on hiatus during the pandemic, when her fears as a single parent of ...

A 74-year-old Texas man who died earlier this month received a hilarious send-off from his son, who said that his late dad ...

Re “Why I Write My Obituary Every Year,” by Kelly McMasters (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 29): I felt so connected to Ms. McMasters’s essay. Like her, I started this ritual when I was a child.

After his father's death, Charles Boehm tells PEOPLE he felt sad at the thought that dad Robert would be forgotten, so he ...

When Robert Adolph Boehm died on Oct. 6, at age 74, his son decided to honour his memory by writing an obituary as chaotic, irreverent and expletive-laden as his father was in life. Not only did ...

“I’d never written an obituary before, so I decided to Google, ‘What do you put in an obituary?’” said Boehm. His father, ...

An obituary posted on Facebook mentions Robert Adolph Boehm’s habit of wearing unconventional hats, his possibly dangerous hobbies and his "last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse." ...

When Charles Boehm sat down in his Houston home to write his father’s obituary, he was stumped. “I’d never written an obituary before, so I decided to Google, ‘What do you put in an ...

A family bid their final farewell to their father in a colorful obituary that describes his zany quirks. Robert Adolph Boehm, the subject of the humor-filled eulogy, died on Oct. 6 at the age of ...