Obituaries are more than a name bookended by two dates, and followed by a list of survivors. One way to honor the dead is to tell their stories, and not just the flattering ones, but warts and all.
I'm a journalist, currently with the Denver Post. I'm keenly interested in obituaries and life stories, and I see digital storytelling as a superlative way to capture a snapshot of an individual's life.
I maintain blogs.denverpost.com/coloradosudaze on an erratic basis; it's mostly links to odd stories in Colorado's regional newspapers.
I also frequently contribute to Dave Barry's blog, which resulted in the creation -- by jealous submitters whose links didn't make it to Dave's blog -- of noiamnotclairemartin.blogspot.com, which just thrills me to pieces! Someone hated me enough to make a blog about me! Although the blogger kinda got over it, and now just uses it as a regular blog.
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