Five components of Obituary

1. What is the cause of death?
- Did the individual have an exciting, vibrant life that ended gracefully or lived life of a dead man/woman, in vain, counting days or something in between?
2. What did the individual do while alive?
- Being aspects - What roles/positions/recognitions held? and
- Doing aspects - What lasting contributions did the individual make? Built a lasting organization, built a dam, built schools, etc.
3. What impact did the individual have on the world while alive?
- Helped the world in anyway, hurt fewer than those helped or hurt the world mostly?
4. What legacy did the individual leave behind for the future?
- An example/message to follow/imitate/look upon/be inspired by or a mistake to avoid?
5. Who will mourn the death?
- No one or just the family, kith and kin, or a state or a country or an ethnicity or the entire world?

The totality of every life is viewed from these five angles. Heros, rebels, leaders, followers, peasants and everyone including you and I are weighted by this scale in the end.