Do some checking to make sure an online obituary is legitimate and the person actually died – or that it's not a fake obituary for you. That's because scammers are using AI-generated fake obituaries ...

Obituaries for writer Deborah Vankin popped up online in January, complete with morbid images and flattering prose. In videos accompanying the announcements, “news anchors” discussed her death and ...

Lately I’ve been reading obituaries that were written by the dearly departed before they departed. I suppose that’s one way ...

The man details his many "close calls" throughout his life, revealing the "long series of events and mishaps that looking back should have killed me long ago" -- local reports reveal how he died, as ...

Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New ...

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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 74, ...

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine found out that a childhood classmate had died unexpectedly. They hadn’t stayed in touch, but he was sad and curious about what had happened, so he did what people do ...

The rush to monetize grief leads to the creation of AI obituaries, turning personal loss into clickbait and exposing the dark side of online memorials. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering ...

Ms. McMasters is the author of “The Leaving Season: A Memoir.” I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual. I’ve met a few others who do the same or ...