How to Write an Obituary

The modern obituary was invented in the 19 eighties by a man called a montgomery massingbred and montgomery hifen massingbed, who wrote obituaries for the daily telegraph. The story is not like a typical news story in which, you know, you put all the stuff in the first paragraph so you can cut from the bottom. Instead, it's a narrative built like a box, so that the second or last sentence can be just as important as the first sentence. For many years i used a pseudonym. I used the name james mc cready. Why? It was a family joke. My great grandfather came from ireland in 18 70