Referring to Fools Rush In, the columnist David Carr remarked: "Of all the journalists who wrote obits for the dot-com mania, few did it with the precision and quiet glee of Nina Munk."

In April 2000, he assumed the job of Chief Obituary Writer for The Times and wrote advance obituaries and occasional daily obits until his retirement on June 30, 2006.

Everyone who had forgotten about him wrote obits saying what a fine fellow he was.

I once wrote obits, when I was a reporter trainee at The Miami Herald.

"The Executioners" - Written by Max Hodge - Kolchak finds himself demoted to either writing obits or the articles for the arts section.

---- Just when I had stopped dreaming of an early retirement, of cashing in, walking away, jetting off to Europe, and backpacking across Australia, just when I had resettled into my routine of covering stories and writing obits and hawking ads to every merchant in town, Mr. Gary McGrew reentered my life.

OF all the journalists who wrote obits for the dot-com mania, few did it with the precision and quiet glee of Nina Munk, a former writer for Fortune.

During the early 1980's, Mr. Nicholson started writing obits in which "people whose lives had been considered dull as linoleum to the general public were offered up as heroes of their neighborhood and characters of consequence."

If he wants me to write obits for a month, that's what I'll do.