Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
IN mature democracies with a full sense of history, major newspapers, even with their diminished prestige, influence and advertising revenues, make it a point to preserve the full, vibrant life of a part of the page devoted to the recently dead — the obituary or obit section. With its exalted place in newsrooms, the section is deemed as important as business or sports or national news, an unbroken tradition in the hallowed grounds of serious reportage in these mature democracies.
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