CBS newsman Jeff Greenfield (pictured right), his producer Steve Glauber and a crew from CBS Sunday Morning spent the first day of the 2010 Society of Professional Obituary Writers (SPOW) convention at the Philadelphia Inquirer in April, interviewing obit writers and taping some portions of the gathering.They were preparing a segment on obituaries for the Sunday morning TV magazine show.
They let us know several weeks later that they also would be interviewing folks at the New York Times about "Profiles 9/11/01," the compilation of mini-obits the paper ran on victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center for the segment.
The finished product, which finally aired as part of show's Halloween presentation of Oct. 31, 2010, focused on "everyman" obits, done by such writers as Jim Nicholson (pictured above left) for the Philadelphia Daily News and Kay Powell (pictured right) for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Among the highlights was the life-and-death philosophy of Jade Walker (pictured below), creator of the Blog of Death:
"Obits only have one line that deals with death. The rest of the story is about the amazing lives that people lead." "Life is short. You have to make the most of it. I don't wait until the last moment to tell someone I love them. I don't wait to take that trip I've always wanted to take."
Click here to read the transcript.
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CBS says the segment eventually will show up on YouTube. CBS can't post it because royalties for the music used are too expensive. Everyone keep an eye out on YouTube and let us know when it posts.
Here's the YouTube link to the segment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21lApnI9Gow
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