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obituary
in
The History of Love
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THE LAST WORDS ON EARTH When they write my obituary.†
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obituary = published notice of death with a short biography
He'd worked at a daily, writing obituaries.†

obituaries = published death notices with short biographies
A few months later, when it was learned that Isaac Babel had been killed by Moscow's secret police, it fell to Litvinoff to write the obituary.†

obituary = published notice of death with a short biography
He didn't leave the office until midnight, but as he walked home through the cold night he smiled to himself, believing the obituary was one of his finest.†
He thought of his colleagues at the daily, which reminded him of his desk with the divots in the wood he used to finger to help him think, which reminded him of his typewriter with the sticky S so that his copy always had sentences like hisss death leavesss a hole in the livesss of thossse he helped, which reminded him of the smell of his boss's cheap cigars, which reminded him of his promotion from stringer to obituary writer, which reminded him of Isaac Babel, which was as far as he allowed himself to get before he stopped his longing in its tracks and hurried away down the street.†
A week and a half later—I remember the date, October 5th—my mother was reading the newspaper and she said, "Remember that writer you asked me about, Isaac Moritz?" and I said, "Yes," and she said, "There's an obituary for him in the paper.†

Definitions:

(1) (obituary)
a published notice of someone's death -- usually printed in a newspaper with a short biography

The section of the newspaper that reports deaths is called the "Obituaries".
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)