Three recent obits at the New York Times that you really should read:
It never occurs to me look at the obits section when I'm away from home and reading the NYT online. But when I read the print edition—which I still get at home—I'm always stumbling over the obit section, which seems to land randomly in various section of the paper over the course of the week, where I meet fascinating dead people like the three whose obits are linked above.