Obituaries?

Are you serious? Ok maybe I am a negative skeptic today but getting life's pleasure and adventure from obituaries just seems weird. Ok so I will probably write them because I will take any job I can take. but thinking of them as an art form just seems odd. Then again thats what my friends say of journalism in general and when I talk about politics they snooze... but obituaries are a stretch even for me.

and if your write obituaries for a living you depend on people dying... yes ok journalist almost want bad things for a good story... but sometimes a good story comes out of positive things... and the negative w are reporting on does not have to be as permanent as death....

and that just seems like a lot of responsibility... i would not want somebody's life's memories to be put in my hands... how do I know what they were really like? what if he or she was some amazing person but simply did not do extraordinary things why should my hand deprive their greatness because I cant write a sensual obituary on them? Or how do I know they were not really bad/evil and I just made all the people who suffered by their had hurt and feel guilty...

plus i like journalism because its supposed to be objective and there is nothing objective in obituaries... it takes a sensitive hand to write them a hand that beautify words and seem just all the things they beat out of us in journalism classes

I dont think that journalist should write obituaries... would writers and authors not do a better job and romanticizing a beloved dead one? Could not writers better help those who were close to the dearly departed... obituaries dont need to be cold hard fact they serve more for closure then for information

There are people who read obituaries like novels for pete's sake....

So in conclusion I would like to show appreciation for all those people writing obituaries.. you fill an important and delicat role in society one in which there are no clear wrongs and writes... you are brave and you are kind... and I sure hope I wont have to join you for long...