# Whose Obit did I just hear on NPR?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 25, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675 "2005-11-25T11:43:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675/1 "2005-11-25T11:43:56Z")

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It is Friday morning in America, so I suppose I am listening to Morning Edition on NPR on the satellite radio. They had a very nice obituary for a rock & roll impresario from NYC ‘who was killed’ in the city last week.

The phone rang, the bird screamed. I forgot his name already. I did a check of the NPR web site, also the NYT. Nothing.

Who the heck was killed? How? (Yes, I am morbid.)

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675/2 "2005-11-25T12:48:26Z")

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Daniel Harrison. I had to listen until it came up again.

It is such a common name, I will have to look to find his (printed) obit.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675/3 "2005-11-25T12:55:09Z")

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Stabbed by his girlfriend. [Damn.](http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/crime/nyc-stab1121,0,258645.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2)☹

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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675/4 "2005-11-25T13:04:35Z")

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[Here](http://www.13wham.com/entertainment/music/story.aspx?content_id=218F401D-2A40-480C-BA47-4A2844B31394) is a short article that explains his role in the music business.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675/5 "2005-11-25T13:07:11Z")

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I swear Obit writing is a Lost Art. Am I the only one who has written his own?

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**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-obit-did-i-just-hear-on-npr/332675/6 "2005-11-25T17:55:12Z")

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> [@Paul in Saudi](#):
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> I swear Obit writing is a Lost Art. Am I the only one who has written his own?

Not entirely a lost art. Read the ones in the _Atlantic_ (only one a month, though). Worth the price of the magazine.