Writing the Poignant New York Times COVID-19 Obituaries
By Richard Eisenberg. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue.
You can learn in The New York Times how many humans have died from the coronavirus from its Tracking the Coronavirus graphic (472,125 as of June 23, 2020). But to understand the humanity, you need to read The Times’ Those We’ve Lost obituary series.
Dan Wakin, who edits Those We’ve Lost, said he wants its readers to get a sense “of the scope of the pandemic; that it spares no one. It doesn’t matter how much money you have, how educated you are, how brilliant a doctor you are. You can die.”
Beyond that, Wakin said, he also hopes readers will “come away.... Read More