Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor. .
Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the the writer’s more neglected works. Michael Slater, who has died aged 88, was an expert on the life and writings of Charles Dickens ... His biography Charles Dickens ... ....
Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most ... In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of Americans published from 1998 to 2024.