James R. Hagerty is an author and journalist who has worked at The Wall Street Journal for nearly forty years. He is the paper's only fulltime obituary writer. His article 'An Obituary Writer Writes One for Himself' drew an outpouring of reader responses, which inspired his book, Yours Truly.
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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, lo... SEE MORE