Russian obituaries

[Yekaterina Victorovna Jordan]

Julie,

I do not wish to discourage you, but I have to tell you that it is not at 
all a common practice for "everyday" people to have their obituaries placed 
in newspapers.  I have never seen any in either the local papers or the 
national papers.  Oftentimes a paper would have a whole section devoted to 
actors and politicians, but not when it comes to the common folk.  Partly it 
is due to the fact that the Russians just do not feel the need to announce 
such private information about their family members, and partly because the 
newspapers do not even offer such services.  An obituaty is meant to be a 
mini-celebration of a person's life.  However, in the minds of many Russians 
death is not only an irrevocable loss, but also a serious tragedy.

Yekaterina Jordan
University of Virginia

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:17:06 -0800
  Julie Draskoczy <jusudra at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> A morbid request: does anyone know where I might be able to access a 
> fairly large pool of recent Russian obituaries?  I have looked in  all the 
>current Russian newspapers carried by my library as well as the  major 
>Russian newspapers online, and none of them seem to have death  notices. 
> This is for a linguistics research project, so I would  need a fairly 
>large sample of obituaries of "everyday" people, not just  one or two about 
>someone famous who has died.
>  
>  Many thanks in advance for any tips!
>  
>  Julie
>  
>  Julie Draskoczy
>  Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>  University of Pittsburgh
> 
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