Do you ever look at your local paper's obituaries?

[Jayson]

I sometimes do and I know other people do and i'm not sure why. I don't do it all the time because life is depressing enough without being reminded of are mortality. I really can't handle it very well when you see a kid in there. I can't help but cry when you read about kids dying in the newspaper.

Maybe I look out or morbid curiousity. Always afraid I will see someone I know or maybe it's to just kind of pay respect to the dead. I am always fascinated by strangers. I love to look at people I don't know and kind of wonder what there like as people. Do you ever look at a stranger and realize you will proably never see this person every again in the rest of your life? They will go on and live a life and deal with all sorts of issue's and have things happen to them that you will never even be aware of. I'm kind of fascinated by the idea that there are so many people in the world doing all sorts of things, yet they will never even interact wityh my life and I won't interact with theirs.

When you look at people who are dead, you realize that these were people that also had thre own unique life journey's as well. Makes you wonder what there lives were all about and how did they deal with the death when it finally came to them.

Jason

 

[Captain Shaw]

I do i don't why because I am only 26 so it comes a bit of a shock when i see someone i went to school with in there.

 

[John Clark]

As I get older, yeah I guess I do glance at them more.

There have been some I knew from school who passed away only a year or so after we left, though those were because of unnatural causes rather than illness and the like

 

[jamestyler]

No quite the obits, but whenever I read about someone being attacked or killed in the news, depending where it is, I tend to click on it to check if it's anyone I know.

A couple of months ago I clicked on an article from my hometown and read about a man being killed in the fire. The name seemed familier so I called my mother and found out it was my uncle who I hadn't seen for about ten (probably more) years.

 

[Aurian]

I read them, if i read the magazine.
It is only rarely it's someone I know. But since I work in social services I sort of know a few that is overdue..

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't read the obits, but I have made a number of photography trips to old cemeteries. It's associated with my interest in Archaeology. Whenever I see pictures of ancient ruins and so forth, I often wonder about the people who lived in those places; what were their favorite foods, who were their friends, what made them cry, what made them happy, what were their favorite jokes, where did they like to go to relax, and what did they leave unfinished when they died? And what would they think of their homes reduced to rubble and elevated to scientific study?

Often I also wonder about the people I pass on the street or at the mall. Complete strangers, we barely see or notice each other-- yet if we met on an Internet message board, we might becomes friends. Curious....

 

[JonathonWally]

Yes, I read the obits daily, not only to see if it's people I know, but to see if it's any of my patients.

I would hate to find out someone I know has passed and I didn't pay my respects to the family and whatnot.

 

[Mallory]

I check them every morning to make sure I'm not dead yet. No sense moderating if I am.

 

[Daneel]

^^^^^
I don't know -- I think it would be quite the distinction to be the first zombie moderator.

I personally don't usually read the obituaries, no, but I don't get a paper anyway. Besides, I recently moved to this area out of my hometown, and I don't really know many people here, so there's a very small chance I'd see any familiar names.

When I did live in my hometown, I still didn't often read obituaries. If someone I knew died, I'd usually find out about it through Facebook or something like that.

 

[Kitty Worrier]

I work at a newspaper, and so sometimes I'll glance at the obits. I'll read the ones for people who were babies/rather young.

I also write/proof obits for our two satellite papers.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

No because there is always an odds on chance that I am going to be in them.

I am kind of fascinated whenever I hear someone young dying of cancer or the like. I am 39 and I don't take good care of myself yet the idea of dying young is not something I fully take to heart. Yet when someone semi-famous my age goes I realize there are no guarantees for any of us.