How to write an obituary when you don’t know what to say

Sarah Mitchell
8 min readAug 6, 2019
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Writing an obituary is an awful job.

It’s important writing because it’s part of a permanent record and it lives on the internet forever.

Chances are when you’re faced with the task, you won’t know how to write an obituary because you haven’t done it often.

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Sarah Mitchell

Founder of Typeset and Global Copywriting. Working to make the world a better place for readers everywhere.