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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. Billy Sunday

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. Clarence Darrow

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The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson

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I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out! Glenn Greenwald

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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. Peter Utley

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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. Walter Cronkite

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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain. Walter Cronkite

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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. Walter Cronkite

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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. Walter Cronkite

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