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The one deadline every human eventually makes, written by someone else.
means A published notice announcing someone's death, usually with a summary of their life.
from From Latin 'obitus,' meaning 'a going down' or 'death,' itself from 'obire' — 'to go toward' or 'to meet' (as in meeting one's end). Medieval Latin turned this into 'obituarius,' a record of deaths, and by the 1700s English had borrowed 'obituary' for the printed notice itself — the word carrying its grim root quietly inside it, a 'going down' dressed up as a newspaper column.
- origin
- from latin obit, meaning death or downfall
- etiquette
- traditionally skips cause of death out of tact
- pro tip
- self-written ones exist, called autobituaries
- irony
- the subject never gets to proofread it