F25-07 - Preparing Your Own Obituary
Class | Registration opens 9/2/2025 9:00 AM
An obituary is a last and lasting written tribute to someone. It's not just famous people who deserve a well-written obit; everyone does. The first session will look at different types of obits and discuss how to incorporate those features into your own obit or that of someone you must honor with a written obituary. We'll also talk about how to place an obit and where else you can put it since newspaper obituary pages are largely a thing of the past. The second session will include an outline of your own obit. Hopefully, you will not be required to use it in the foreseeable future.
Doug Fenichel, EMT-P, APR
Doug Fenichel, APR is an accredited public relations professional. He was a newspaper reporter and editor for the first 10 years of his career. Throughout his career, writing obituaries was an important task that fell to him. These ranged from writing obituaries about regular people for The New Haven Register to the sensitive treatment of a CEO’s son and a young fire chief.