Literature of death: boomers monitor obits

Staring death in the eye that's what a lot of baby boomers seem to be about these days. Obituaries in their many forms are drawing increased interest from that largest group of aging Americans. The boomers are subscribing to obit news groups, obit Web sites, obit blogs and obit forums, according to an account in the Belleville News-Democrat, a newspaper in Belleville, Ill. "American Trends: Obits of Growing Interest to Aging Baby Boomers" Richmond Times-Dispatch