#obituary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #obituary, aggregated by home.social.
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Brian Duckworth Dies: Country Musician, Member Of Taylor Made Band Was 56
#News #Obituaries #BrianDuckworth #Obituary #TaylorMadehttps://deadline.com/2026/09/brian-duckworth-dead-1237099978/
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Joshua Gil, Pioneer of L.A. Alta California Cuisine, Dies https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/521/ #Alta #California #CaliforniaCuisine #CaliforniaDining #CaliforniaFood #CaliforniaRestaurants #CaliforniaWine #Chef #food #JoshuaGil #Obituary #Riverside
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Yasuchika Hasegawa, former president of Takeda Pharmaceutical and former chair of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, died on July 3 at the age of 80. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/11/japan/doyukai-hasegawa-dies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #obituary #pharmaceuticals
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One Piece Star Mike McFarland Passes Away After Cancer Battle, Tributes Flood Social Media
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One Piece Star Mike McFarland Passes Away After Cancer Battle, Tributes Flood Social Media
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One Piece Star Mike McFarland Passes Away After Cancer Battle, Tributes Flood Social Media
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One Piece Star Mike McFarland Passes Away After Cancer Battle, Tributes Flood Social Media
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One Piece Star Mike McFarland Passes Away After Cancer Battle, Tributes Flood Social Media
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Mike McFarland Dies: ‘One Piece’, ‘Dragon Ball Z’ Voice Actor Was 56
#News #Obituaries #MikeMcFarland #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/mike-mcfarland-dead-one-piece-dragon-ball-z-1237073700/
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Mike McFarland Dies: ‘One Piece’, ‘Dragon Ball Z’ Voice Actor Was 56
#News #Obituaries #MikeMcFarland #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/mike-mcfarland-dead-one-piece-dragon-ball-z-1237073700/
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Mike McFarland Dies: ‘One Piece’, ‘Dragon Ball Z’ Voice Actor Was 56
#News #Obituaries #MikeMcFarland #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/mike-mcfarland-dead-one-piece-dragon-ball-z-1237073700/
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Mike McFarland Dies: ‘One Piece’, ‘Dragon Ball Z’ Voice Actor Was 56
#News #Obituaries #MikeMcFarland #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/mike-mcfarland-dead-one-piece-dragon-ball-z-1237073700/
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303774
#HackerNews #JasonArday #CambridgeUniversity #News #Obituary #Tragedy
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“There is nothing inherently gloomy about the newspaper obituary page. Done well, it should capture life rather than wallow in death.”*…
In an excerpt from his new book, veteran New York Times obituary writer Sam Roberts muses on the form and on how words give shape to legacies…
Tuck Everlasting is a cautionary tale about a family of the same surname who, by inadvertently discovering the proverbial Fountain of Youth, is forced to reconcile with eternity. When I was assigned to write the obituary of the book’s author, Natalie Babbitt, I wondered whether she had continued pondering immortality herself. It turned out she had. Not surprisingly, her own take on eternal life echoed that of the fictional family patriarch, Angus Tuck. “I think that living forever would be a terrible thing,” I quoted her as saying in her Times obituary. “It would be boring, sad and lonely.” Babbitt died when she was 84. But Tuck and her other novels endure as Babbitt’s legacy for readers. So does my obituary, which in 2016 revealed her motivation to become an author: She was inspired to write Tuck, she said, when her four-year-old daughter woke from a nap crying because she was scared of dying. Babbitt had intended to become an illustrator, not an author, but pivoted after taking one writing course in college. She had enrolled because her husband hoped to become a novelist and she wanted to understand the challenges he faced.
Back at the Daily News, obituaries weren’t the best way to achieve immortality. We mostly ran one-paragraph squibs for members of the paper’s family, of printers, pressmen, and their immediate relatives. Instead, like most tabloids, the News thrived on the reported details of murders, assassinations, and suicides. Few news stories generated more of a sensation than death in all its dimensions. No less an authority once defined “news” than the ancient newspaper deliverer—a beloved man known as Bo Gee, who was decades too old to be described as a newsboy—weaving up Second Avenue with a wire shopping cart brimming with Chinese-language newspapers, calling out the headlines as he delivered the papers to Chinese bars and restaurants on Manhattan’s East Side. He began his route in Chinatown, where the papers were printed. Subscribers on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were often a day or two behind the headlines because the last stop on his evening route depended largely on the number of drinks he had finagled from bartenders along the way before he was too wobbly to walk any farther. When a colleague of mine, the columnist Jimmy Breslin (who described him as “a small, thirsty man”), asked him which headlines sold the most papers, he responded unhesitatingly. He didn’t need a public opinion poll or a focus group of readers or a real-time digital analysis of clickbait: Two were surefire circulation boosters. One was war! The other: big guy dies!
Taken separately, obits constitute an individual’s legacy. In aggregate, they can capture the social and cultural currency of an era. Which people are worth remembering? Which values are worth celebrating? How do we measure success and failure, good and evil, achievement and defeat, social rank and professional standing? How many of the one hundred thousand people now immortalized in the periodically printed historical compilation Who Was Who were deemed worthy of obituaries at the time of their death? How many of the more than 33,000 contemporary notables included in the latest editions of Who’s Who will get obituaries when they die? (That the titles of those reference books don’t include question marks suggests that the listings themselves are indisputable, a questionable supposition when the price of inclusion by some publishers seems to be for the “whos” to buy at least one copy of the book. An entry for Michael Fowler Cullis, a former British diplomat, describes his recreation as “writing obituaries for friends.”)
People want to be remembered, and we want to remember them, or, at least, we do. “Obituaries commemorate a life at the point where it is completed by death. Yet the completion is also depletion, in the sense that the life is constructed as meaningful precisely at the point where it stops,” Professor Clare Brant, who teaches literature and culture at Kings College London, has written. “They act as the first version of a biography—sometimes the only one, although Wikipedia has closed the gap with each life story seemingly waiting for a death sentence.” But as valuable as Wikipedia can be, the New York Public Library notes, “Obituaries provide an important tool to researchers by offering biographical information on individuals that may not be readily available elsewhere. In many cases, the obituary supplies the only biographical data extant on a person.” Philip Sutton, a genealogy librarian at the library, told Legacy.com, the self-proclaimed world’s largest commercial provider of online memorials and guest books, that obituaries may reveal the married name of a daughter identified years earlier in the census only by her maiden name; that by identifying an immigrant’s specific birthplace, obituaries can also invigorate research on a family’s roots.
To me, obituaries evoke the heartrending backstories of the characters in Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town, the unfulfilled promise of Joe Crowell, who got a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated first in his class: “Goin’ to be a great engineer, Joe was. But the war broke out and he died in France. All that education for nothing.” Emily is dead, too, but so consumed by nostalgia—before being persuaded that “live people don’t understand, do they?”—that she descends from the town’s cemetery and wants to return to her past life in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, until the Stage Manager reminds her, “You not only live it but you watch yourself living it. And as you watch it, you see the thing that they, down there, never know. You see the future. You know what’s going to happen afterwards.” “When I think of an obituary, it’s as objective as journalism can be, a story on someone’s life,” Holly Shreve Gilbert, a journalism instructor at Oakland University who was the interim president of the Funeral Consumers Information Society, told Molly Birnbaum of Atlas Obscura. But “hyper-local journalism is dying, and so is the obituary of the local person.” Gilbert added, “Now, if it’s on Legacy.com or Facebook or a blog, we’re basically whitewashing everyone’s lives. We’re all happy. Everyone is happy.”
Well, not everyone.
Obituaries are a reminder that when you die, someone else gets the last word on your legacy—or, at least, the first of the last words. And for all the beloved and respected and cherished and valued that punctuate paid obituaries, don’t forget that families can try to perpetuate irreverent descriptions unilaterally to settle scores when one is no longer in a position to retaliate or respond. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Malcolm declaims of the repentant Thane of Cawdor, who was executed for treason, “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” If the Thane got the benefit of ambiguity, Florence Harrelson of Chelsea, Maine, had no such luck when she died in 2024 and her daughter, Christina Novak, placed a paid obituary in the Kennebec Journal. Wasting no words, the four-line obit read that the 65-year-old Henderson died “without family by her side due to burnt bridges and a wake of destruction left in her path.” It continued, “Florence did not want an obituary or anyone including family to know she died. That’s because even in death, she wanted those she terrorized to still be living in fear looking over their shoulders. So, this isn’t so much an obituary but more of a public service announcement.”…
Read on… The art of the obituary: “Speaking for the Dead,” from @longreads.com.
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As we remember, we might send healthy birthday greetings to William Oliver; he was born on this date in 1695. A physician and philanthropist, he was a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital in Bath, England, which opened in 1742 and continued to serve patients until 2019, often with treatments involving the geothermal springs at the Roman Baths.
But Oliver is better remembered for a culinary contribution. In a search for food that would suit his dyspeptic patients, he created the Bath bun. But as that proved too fattening for his rheumatic patients, he invented the “Bath Oliver” biscuit, a hard, dry cracker made simply from flour, butter, yeast and milk, and often eaten with cheese. Shortly before his death, Oliver confided the recipe to his coachman Atkins, giving him at the same time £100 in money and ten sacks of the finest wheat-flour. The fortunate recipient opened a shop in Green Street, and soon acquired a large fortune. The “Bath Oliver” is still a well-known type of cracker.
There are no surviving obits for Oliver; but this marker bedecks the house in Bath in which he lived. The text reads “On this site stood the residence of William Oliver M.D. one of the founders of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital b. 1695 d. 1764” (source)
A Bath Oliver cracker, served on slate with cheese (source) #BathBun #BathOliver #biscuit #crackers #culture #Death #Food #history #journalism #Life #obituaries #obituary #RomanBaths #RoyalMineralWaterHospital #WilliamOliver -
Village People's Victor Willis dies at 74, Trump pays tribute to himself
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/victor-willis-village-people
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“The actress was most know for her role as Kate Tanner, a mother who takes the titular alien into her home on the NBC sitcom ALF, which ran for four seasons from 1986 to 1990.”
Anne Schedeen Dies: 'ALF' Actress Was 77
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Radio Free Skaro #1070 – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs1070.mp3Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD’s hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won’t be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who Christmas Special? We get after it! We also look into the spectacular looking 4K release of the 1996 TV Movie, our thoughts on the Mandolorian and Grogu, the usual Big Finish Zaprudering, and an interview with Sophie Aldred, Paul Cornell and author Adrian Tchaikovsky and their involvement in the Salvation’s Child graphic novel! Space Comics!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Radio Times report on supposed upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special
- Russell T Davies on LBC: “I’m not filming anything until 2027”
- Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann on the Whoniverse Show
- Jonathan Helm on the Doctor Who TV Movie pre-titles sequence
- Doctor Who TV Movie 4K review
- Doctor Who Magazine 630 released
- Doctor Who (1963-1996) coming to Britbox in Australia in June
- Doctor Who Adventures: Save the Humans! due Aug 18
- Cybertropolis The Art & Times of the Cybermen from Andrew Skilleter due autumn 2026
- Big Finish: Torchwood: Fare Well released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers due July 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident due July 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers due October 2026
- Paradise Towers: Unalive the Multiverse Kickstarter from Cutaway Comics
- Marcia Lucas passes away
Interview:
#AdrianTchiakovsky #AndrewSkilleter #BigFinish #BritBox #CutawayComics #DoctorWhoAdventures #DoctorWhoAmI #doctorWhoMagazine #DoctorWhoTVMovie #JonathanHelm #MarciaLucas #Merchandise #Obituary #ParadiseTowers #PaulCornell #PaulMcGann #RussellTDavies #Series16 #SophieAldred #SylvesterMcCoy -
After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/14/craig-venter-obituary I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.
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Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/05/01/craig-venter-raced-to-decode-the-human-genome
#HackerNews #CraigVenter #HumanGenomeProject #Obituary #ScienceLegacy #Genetics
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"J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at 79.
Venter rose to fame in the field for publishing the first bacterial genome ever decoded, along with a list on gene annotations, in 1995. The achievement kicked off an age of discovery in genetics, with researchers racing to decode the genomes of other pathogens—and eventually, animals."
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Barbara Gordon Dies: TV Producer Who Wrote Of Valium Addiction In Memoir-Turned-Movie ‘I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can’ Was 90
#News #Obituaries #BarbaraGordon #I039mDancingAsFastAsICan #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/04/barbara-gordon-dead-1236863537/
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Chuck Norris, macho star of ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’, dies at 86
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NPPA Awards Honor Late Boston Globe Picture Editor Lloyd Young https://petapixel.com/2026/02/27/nppa-awards-honor-late-boston-globe-picture-editor-lloyd-young/ #photocontest #bostonglobe #competition #lloydyoung #Industry #industry #obituary #honor #News #nppa
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That's It for the Other One.
#GiftArticle #GiftLink #thedead #gratefuldead #Deadheads #deadandcompany #BobWeir #bobby #obit #obituaries #obituary
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'Dinge die mit "G" beginnen ...'
#FotoVorschlag(vor)Gestern guten Gig genossen! #Obituary #Zakk #Düsseldorf
(Die Band heißt Obituary, kommt aus Florida, spielt Death Metal, feiert ihr Album "Cause of Death" von vor 35 Jahren, Fotos aufgenommen mit dem Samsung Galaxy A52)
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Clairvoyance – Chasm of Immurement Review
By Maddog
Yes, I picked this up entirely because of its cover. Girardi’s gorgeous spiral of tombstones and skeletons conjures vintage highbrow death metal of the likes of Death. The title Chasm of Immurement grasps at brutal badassery in the vein of Suffocation’s Effigy of the Forgotten. Clairvoyance’s logo remains indecipherable even if you know the band’s name, suggesting kvltness galore. The promo materials describe lyrics that address the isolating effects of depression, foreshadowing a harrowing listen. In isolation, each of these judgments strikes at the truth but glances off. Chasm of Immurement is the debut album from Poland’s Clairvoyance, an unknown band comprising unknown musicians. Lying at the intersection of brainless death-doom and brainiac digressions, Chasm of Immurement is a powerful foray into death metal.
A first pass through Chasm of Immurement suggests primitive death metal with a dollop of doom. “Eternal Blaze” opens the album with a bang that recalls Faceless Burial’s Speciation. After grabbing me by the anus, Clairvoyance maintains its hold by alternating between mid-range Obituary riffs and lurching Autopsy-style death-doom. These lowbrow highlights feel both as slimy and evolved as an amoeba. With both its riffs and its guitar tone, Chasm of Immurement leaves a palpable layer of grime that justifies multiple colonoscopies. “Blood Divine” emerges as a late gem through riffs that are gory enough to draw blood and enormous enough to evoke Immolation. This isn’t isolated to a subset of the tracks; throughout its runtime, Chasm of Immurement alternates between a sixteen-wheeler and a used minivan without dulling its fun.
On your fifth listen, Clairvoyance’s experimental bent comes into view. The same doomy riffs you’d heard before reveal spooky foreground melodies (“Reign of Silence”). The same track that you’d interpreted as a caveman ditty blossoms in baffling melodic directions in its second half (“Eternal Blaze”). The same song that introduced itself as by-the-books death metal culminates in a monstrous doomy climax (“Fleshmachine”). The same sections that you’d dismissed as repetitive transform into home bases for grimy excursions, interfering with your sleep schedule and your family obligations. Adorning hefty riffs with sinister melodies, Clairvoyance recalls both Lovecraft’s Azathoth and Morbid Angel’s Trey Azagthoth. It took me a while to realize that I was doing Chasm of Immurement an injustice by pigeonholing it into old-school death metal. It is indeed that, but it’s so much more.
Clairvoyance’s varying ambitions both empower and dilute each other. Spanning 34 minutes across 6 tracks, Chasm of Immurement is a concise collection of lengthy tracks. Some of its pieces wander, especially at their simplest. For instance, despite being the second shortest track, “Blood Divine” feels lengthy because of its dearth of creative ideas. Similarly, the shortest song, “Eternal Blaze,” suffers from riffwork that’s decent but unimaginative, before eventually redeeming itself with more variety. Even so, these flubs are rare. The six-minute “Hymn of the Befouled” is the starkest counterexample, balancing length with girth by combining a vicious off-kilter main riff with melodic escapades that hold me rapt. Parts of Chasm of Immurement could do a better job of remaining engaging, but it’s hardly a fatal flaw.
Balancing thoughtful death metal and anti-intellectual death-doom, Clairvoyance’s debut is as weird as it is powerful. Neanderthals who need their fix should look here, as Chasm of Immurement’s crushing death metal riffs rival the best of old-school death metal. Conversely, fans of Morbid Angel’s wonkiness or Tomb Mold’s shapeshifting shenanigans will find just as much to love here. Chasm of Immurement is unlikely to dethrone Faithxtractor’s Loathing and the Noose atop my 2025 death metal ranking, as its occasional meandering loses my interest. But it’s a promising debut from a crew of talented Polish fiends.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Carbonized Records
Websites: carbonizedrecords.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/clairvoyancedeathmetal
Releases Worldwide: July 18th, 2025#2025 #35 #Autopsy #BrutalDeath #BrutalDeathMetal #CarbonizedRecords #ChasmOfImmurement #Clairvoyance #Death #DeathDoom #DeathMetal #DeathDoomMetal #FacelessBurial #Immolation #Jul25 #MorbidAngel #Obituary #PolishMetal #ProgDeath #ProgressiveDeath #ProgressiveDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #Suffocation #TombMold
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Former U.S. Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, who worked to aid Japanese-Americans who had been imprisoned during World War II, has died at age 93. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/16/japan/politics/obit-us-senator-who-helped-japanese-internees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #alansimpson #obituary #usjapanrelations #wwii
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Columbus Blue Jackets left-winger Johnny Gaudreau died Thursday night when he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle in New Jersey in a crash that also killed his brother, Matthew. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/08/31/more-sports/johnny-gaudreau-killed-bicycle-crash/ #moresports #johnnygaudreau #matthewgaudreau #columbusbluejackets #calgaryflames #nhl #obituary
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Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89 - Enlarge / A photo of Gordon Bell speaking at the annual PC Forum in Pal... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2025881 #digitalequipmentcorporation #gordonbell #obituaries #techlegend #microsoft #retrotech #obituary #tech #dec #vax
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Album Review: NECROT Lifeless Birth
"Necrot is one of the most-hyped death bands of the last 10 years, and this album gives you a good idea why."https://metalinjection.net/reviews/album-review-necrot-lifeless-birth
#Necrot #LifelessBirth #DeathMetal #Autopsy #Grave #Vader #Master #Krisiun #Obituary #AlbumReview
