A belated note about fine reporting in the Boston Globe back in June: Alex Beam’s “Grave Schism on the Death Beat,” an account of the rival factions in the International Association of Obituarists. This year, the splinter group will meet in Toronto, while “the faithful” will continue to hold their annual convention in New Mexico. A sad business.
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