If you're an obit writer, the good news is that the Eighth International Obituary Writers' Conference will be held June 15-17 in Las Vegas. The bad news: it's being held in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The conference is put on by The International Association of Obituarists, whose website is kind of a hoot. There's an archive of Great Obits, with titles like these:
Jimmy Rae
Pilot, Diver, Inventor - Performed Handstand Atop the Eiffel Tower
Louis Heckert
Ex-Mayor Dies From Run-In With Moose
Iris "Fluff" Bower
Nurse who did not Neglect to Apply her Lipstick Before
Tending the Wounded Troops on D-Day
