Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
Deathcetera: the week in death and mourning
DEATH
Neurologist and
writer Oliver Sacks on learning of his terminal cancer – via the New
York Times
Re: Oliver Sacks
– is writing about death online helping us deal with it? – by Sarah
Seltzer at Flavorwire
More on the
debate on doctor-assisted death – from Elizabeth Picciuto at the Daily
Beast
Woman will
receive rose on V-Day from dead husband until she dies – from the Good
News Network
MOURNING
Against
euphemizing in grief
– by Julienne Grey in the New York Times
On
art and mourning – via jordansarti at creative
communityreview.wordpress.com
FUNERALS
Making the
funeral process more transparent and participatory – via Rolf Boone
at the Oregonian
Wrong
corpse buried – via AP
OBITS
The joys of
being an obit writer
– by Alena Hall at the Huffington Post
Funny obits
compiled
– by Jackie Taurinanen at HLN
Dave Cloud
Outsider musician and actor -- via the Nashville Scene. What a wonderfully strange person! An icon in the southeastern underground scene (ang big in Scandinavia), Cloud was an early punker who moved into his own inimitable area -- collage tape compositions, contemptuous/worshipful covers of bubblegum, psychedelic, and schmaltz, and his own songs. A frenetic performer who Phil Hebblethwaite referred to as a "garage rock lounge lizard extraordinaire."
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Bruce Sinofsky
Filmmaker and television director -- via Variety. Best known for ducmentaries such as "Brother's Keeper," "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster," and the "Paradise Lost" trilogy.
Clark Terry
Trumpeter and flugelhornist, composer, and educator -- via Variety. One of the most prolifically recorded talents in jazz history, Terry's career began in 1947 and continued almost to the present day. He played with everyone, including Basie, Ellington, Mingus, Peterson . . . He TAUGHT Miles.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Alan Howard
Great Shakespearian actor -- via the Guardian. One of the great voices in the theater, he played all the kings and many of the knaves. His Coriolanus is the best. (Talented family: his uncle Leslie Howard, and his uncle wrote "Whiskey Galore.")
June Fairchild
Actress -- via TMZ. Best remembered for a scene she did in "Up in Smoke," she also happened to name the Band Three Dog Night.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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