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Obituaries Editor, The New York Times
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The Pursuit of Immortality in The Times Original

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By William McDonald Verified, William Mcdonald
| The New York Times Verified
The Pursuit of Immortality in The Times William McDonald, who recently retired as the obituaries editor after nearly two decades, shares how subjects are chosen to be remembered in the newspaper. William McDonald in “Obit” (2016), which documented the inner workings of The Times’s Obituaries desk.
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The Pursuit of Immortality in the Times

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By William McDonald Verified
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(Times Insider) For most of my 20 years as the obituaries editor of The New York Times -- a tour that ended recently with my retirement -- a certain New Yorker cartoon, enlarged and pasted on plastic foam, was displayed in the vicinity of my desk. It never failed to amuse me. The scene in the cartoon, by Paul Noth, is a cocktail party. A woman holding a glass of wine is standing beside a stoop-shouldered old fellow bearing a sour, pinched expression. She is introducing him to a man holding a drink.
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By William McDonald Verified, Mysterious Circumstances
| The Best of Times Verified
Search Search Magazine Search News Search Radio Article View Download Issue A Legacy of Love March 2026 By William McDonald **Please click on the magazine page below to view the article** March 2026 -- Online Articles Other Online Issues
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