Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place." Instead, you will read about dead ends, lucky coincidences, quirky habits, excessive self-confidence (often interspersed with bursts of excessive self-doubt), and a lot of passion for something. .Charles Wheelan
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In the obituary, there is a story that goes with the death. In a biography, it’s much more difficult to find an overall theme. In the obituary world, pieces of a life become a whole. The biography is not a story but a collection of facts and figures about an individual.
Obituaries are a collection of facts and figures about a person’s life. Biographies are a story of how it all came together, an overall theme for each piece of the puzzle.
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