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An Ode To The Obit w/ Don Van Natta and Jacob Feldman

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The Art of Writing an Obituary

The New York Times has a couple of thousand advance obits that they have worked on and are ready to go over years. It's an immense undertaking and it's really difficult but it gives the reader a sense of somebody's life for the first time. Margarit Fox was arguably the best of them all or is thebest of them all because of course her byline still appears in the Times as it did just last month.

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