THE OBIT PATROL

Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi

Murdered journalist -- per AP via the Independent.

Antoine Sfeir

Scholar, writer, and journalist -- via the Independent.

Mel Ramos

Artist -- via Datebook.

Alfred Hubay

Former house and box office manager for the Metropolitan Opera; its institutional memory -- via the New York Times.

Aziza Niyozmetova

Singer -- via kun.uz.

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Brad Weismann: This award-winning independent writer and editor returned to the place where he grew up after years as a wandering comedian. It's beautiful here. He served in a variety of capacities for the Boulder International Film Festival from 2006 through 2014. His writing portfolio includes stories written on topics ranging from grand opera to midget wrestling, for a diverse array of magazines, newspapers and websites worldwide -- including Film International, Westword, Boulder Magazine, Power Pickin', Parterre, Understanding Our Gifted, Movie Habit, Backstage, Muso, 5280, EnCompass, Senses of Cinema, Boulder Jewish News and . . . Philly Sports Faithful, for some reason. Also poet, playwright, screenwriter, blah blah blah. Check out his work at brad-weismann.com, filmpatrol.com and obitpatrol.com.

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"How are we to help those who die and those who have died?" --

Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

"By writing or reading obituaries, we can discover ways to make our time on earth more worthwhile, more productive, more meaningful to others." -- Alana Baranick, "Life on the Death Beat"

"'I always read the obituaries in The Times,' I explained to her. 'They make me bloody glad to be alive.'" -- John Mortimer, "Rumpole's Return"