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Yours truly : an obituary writer's guide to telling your story
Someday, your life story is likely to be boiled down to a few lines. If you leave things to chance, your obituary is almost sure to be solemn, formulaic, and full of errors--an obligatory final chapter written in haste by others. James R. Hagerty, longtime obit writer for The Wall Street Journal, knows how to get the job done right: Do it yourself, starting now, while you still can. In this heartfelt and reassuring guide, Hagerty explains how to preserve your personal history--from crafting a brief obituary for newspapers and websites, to a more thoughtful and detailed mini-memoir for those close to you. Through his personal stories, on-the-job anecdotes, and insights, you will learn what to include, what to leave out, and how to provide historical context, record oral histories and make the most of details, all with candor and wit. Best of all, you'll find that reviewing your life story helps you think about what you're doing with your time on Earth and whether you're on the right path. It isn't too late to improve the narrative with a stronger ending. Telling your story your way can be the best gift you ever give to friends and loved ones--and yourself.--Amazon
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Helen Cecily Issler
Helen Issler was born in an ambulance on the way to the Military Hospital in Deolali, near Mumbai in India, delivered by her father who was a medical officer in the British Army. Her parents were Polish Jews: her father had travelled to Montpellier and then Geneva to study medicine, and at the outbreak of the second world war they escaped Europe by boarding a boat to India.
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Basket case
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, middle-aged Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dies in a diving \"accident, \" Jack uses clues from the singer's own music to unravel the mystery and resurrect his career in the process.
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Wisden on the Great War : the lives of cricket's fallen, 1914-1918
\"Readers of the 1917 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack were advised by the editor, Sydney Pardon: 'Its chief feature is a record of the cricketers who have fallen in the War--the Roll of Honour, so far as the national game is concerned.' By the time the conflict was over, Wisden had carried almost 1,800 obituaries ... In Wisden on the Great War all the obituaries have been updated with new information about the subjects' lives and deaths, their families and memorials, and ordered by the year of death. There is a listing of the 289 men who had played first-class cricket, while the 89 who did not get an obituary in Wisden are now recognised. The book also lists for the first time the 407 first-class cricketers who were decorated for gallantry, of whom 381 survived.\" -- Jacket flap.
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David Brooks
David was born in Godley, Hyde, near Manchester, in 1939 and was educated at De La Salle grammar school in Salford. He qualified from Manchester University in 1964, and in 1971 he was awarded a doctorate for research into the treatment of urinary tract infection in general practice. He then joined the Peterloo Medical Centre in Middleton as a junior partner and remained there until his retirement in 1999.
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