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How To Write A Death Notice Or Obituary
All the information you need to know to craft the perfect death notice or obituary.
10 Things To Do After A Death
It’s a difficult time, emotions are raw and there’s a lot to organize.
How To Submit A Death Notice Or An Obituary
A death notice is a paid announcement in a newspaper that gives the name of the person who died and details of the funeral or...
Death Notice Templates And Obituary Templates
To help you write a death notice or obituary, here are a number of templates. The information in [brackets] and bold is for you...
The Difference Between An Obituary And A Death Notice
Different newspapers have different terminology for obituaries and death notices, so you should check with the specific...
How To Get A Death Certificate
A death certificate is an official, government-issued document that declares the date and time, location, and cause of death.
What To Do If Death Occurs While Serving In The Military
If death occurs while serving in the United States military, the primary next of kin—either the spouse if the person is married...
What To Do If Death Occurs Out Of The Country
Depending on exactly where the death occurs, local requirements and protocols can differ greatly.
What To Do If Death Occurs At Work
If death occurs away from the home, including at another person’s home or at a workplace, you should immediately call 911.
What To Do If Death Occurs At Home
If the person who died was elderly or ill and was recently treated by a doctor, your first call should be to that doctor—he or...
What To Do If Death Occurs At A Nursing Home
The staff at the care facility will contact you to notify you of the death and your first call should be to a funeral home to...
How To Ask For Help After A Death
After a death, many people want to reach out and help but don’t know how.
How To Inform Family And Friends Of A Death
As soon as you can, you’ll want to reach out to family and friends to notify them of the death. You'll also want to inform people...
How To Escort A Body On A Plane
If you are escorting the body on a plane, the body will be shipped via passenger plane and you can purchase a ticket on that same...
How To Transport A Body Via Airplane
If the body will be air-shipped either from one state to another or from one country to another, the funeral home can (and,...
How To Transport A Body Via Ground
The funeral home you are working with will be able to coordinate the transportation of the body, either within a city or between...
Close Accounts and Cancel Subscriptions After A Death
After a death, you need to cancel any accounts, memberships, and credit cards the deceased had to avoid incurring charges from...
The Most Common Household Issues After A Death
There are a number of common household issues that may need to be taken care of after a death. These tasks generally depend on...
What To Do If Death Occurs At A Hospital
If death occurs at a hospital, the staff at the hospital will know what to do and will take the necessary steps to determine the...
From our Blog
New Yorker Cartoons About Death
The dry wit of New Yorker cartoons takes on the toughest topic of all: death. We picked out some of our favorites. Check...
4 Tips for Talking to Children About Death
For many parents, talking with children about death is a daunting task. Death is a scary topic for a lot of us, and we want...
Death Happens More Slowly Than Thought
What if cellular death doesn't happen all at once, with an organism's cells dying simultaneously, but rather in a wave,...
If You Died Today, Would You Die Happy?
“How would you define a ‘successful’ life? Have you achieved it? Does ‘success’ even matter?”
This was a question posed on...
James Gandolfini Dies in Italy
Yesterday, actor James Gandolfini died at age 51 in Italy, apparently from a heart attack. (Gandolfini is best known for his...
Introducing Marianna Sachse
Death, Dying, and Dealing with It
Three years ago, I could never have imagined that I’d be contributing to a blog about end...
Planning by the Numbers
How much planning have you done? How does it compare to the amount of planning done on average in this country?
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Regrets, I've Had a Few
About a week before my mom died, she asked me not to leave her side. She was in a hospital cot next to her actual bed at...
A Good Death: Photos
What does a good death look like? Photographer Joshua Bright offers one answer to this question with a series of photographs...
Google Wants To End Death
A new Time magazine cover story ask a really cool question: “Can Google Solve Death?” The answer: No. Google can’t solve...
Death Over Dinner Gets Props on Bloomberg
Death + Dinner = Delicious. Bloomberg Media recently highlighted the “death dinners,” which recently collaborated with...
What Won’t You Regret On Your Deathbed?
A palliative care nurse recently wrote a list of the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed. It became really popular....
Actress Tilda Swinton Isn't Afraid Of Death Or Vampires
Source: Michael Clayton, Warner Home Video
While promoting her new vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive actress Tilda...
Deadly Escalators and Killer Scarves
Scarves can be our best friends. They keep our necks warm during a polar vortex, they allow women to display their...
Reason #245 For An Everplan: You’re A Snake Handler
However you honor your faith or religion is fine by us. We’re not here to judge. We’re here to make sure you plan. So, if...
Death and Fashion: What Should Your Final Outfit Be?
New York has always taken fashion very seriously and twice a year the city is pleasantly hijacked by the fashion industry....
Hospital Mistakes Cause How Many Deaths Each Year?!?!
According to a new study, hospital mistakes are the third leading cause of death in America, right behind heart disease (#1...
First Funeral Selfies. Now Corpse Selfies. Please Stop!
#CorpseSelfie
Tasteless, right? For those unfamiliar with what I just posted above, that’s a hashtag used on sites like...
Terminally Ill Have Permission to Die In New Mexico
If you’re a proponent for ending your life in the event of a terminal illness, the Breaking Bad state has some good news.
A...
How We Die
How did humans die in the 20th century? The folks over at Information is Beautiful asked this question, and answered it with...
My Friend's Mom is Dying...What About Me?
When someone is dealing with a significant hardship, like death or caring for someone who is dying, the natural inclination...
Loved to Death
The folks over at iMortuary put together this Valentine's Day infographic, featuring some truly odd facts and stories of...
Death Cafes
In cities across the country (and the world), curious people of all ages and backgrounds are gathering regularly to share...
Home Funerals: Personal Ways of Saying Goodbye
In the Huffington Post today, religion reporter Jaweed Kaleem looks at the rise in home funerals, and offers a number of...
You Are Going to Die
Following last weekend's piece by Ron Lieber about getting your sh*t together, which we blogged about, the NYT has published...