Over Our Dead Bodies.

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    • Subject Terms:
      OBITUARIES; BOOKS & reading; ARTISTS; OBITUARY writing; WRITING; INTELLECTUALS
    • Abstract:
      The author comments on the importance of reading obituaries to realize the impact of influential people on common individuals. Topics covered include the authors' views on obituaries for artists and other famous people who have influenced her life, opinion on how obituaries are created as a genre of occasional writing and the importance of obituaries to turn deaths of intellectuals into an intellectual event and the focus on public display of remorse for the challenges faced by intellectual people.