Every few weeks or so, an obituary -- usually for someone the world never heard of during their lifetime -- becomes a media sensation. These obituaries are sometimes funny, sometimes painful, occasionally wicked, and always enthralling.

Please join and help build profiles for these belatedly notable (and notorious) people.

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B

• Jimmy Breslin of New York City, who "was 88 and, until very recently, was still pushing somebody's buttons with two-fingered jabs at his keyboard"

C

• Leslie Ray Charping of Galveston, Texas, whose life was allegedly "29 years longer than expected and much longer than he deserved"
• Chris Connors of York, Maine, who loved whiskey and mashed potatoes, but not convenience store hot dogs

D

• Kathleen (Schunk) Dehmlow of Minnesota, whose obituary written by her estranged children was so "brutal" that it sparked a national debate amongst journalism ethicists

E

• Bill Eves of Kingston, Ontario, who "wove a tapestry of obscenities that still hangs over the Greater Kingston Area"

G

• Col. Robert F. Gibson of Falls Church, Virginia, who "hated how all of you were incapable of driving competently"

H

• Kay Ann Heggestad of Madison, Wisconsin, who "did not look THAT OLD and no, she did NOT dye her hair"

L

• Jane Catherine Lotter of Seattle, Washington, who found that "one of the few advantages of dying from Grade 3, Stage IIIC endometrial cancer ... is that you have time to write your own obituary"

M

• William "Freddie" McCullough of Bloomingdale, Georgia, who "was killed when he rushed into a burning orphanage to save a group of adorable children. Or maybe not. We all know how he liked to tell stories."

N

• Mary Anne Noland of Richmond, Virginia, who, "faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God"

S

• Harry Stamps of Gulfport, Mississippi, whose "family asks that in honor of Harry that you write your Congressman and ask for the repeal of Day Light Saving Time. Harry wanted everyone to get back on the Lord's Time."
• Mary "Pat" (Morris) Stocks of Toronto, Ontario, who "left behind a hell of a lot of stuff to her daughter and sons who have no idea what to do with it"
• Spencer Watson Seupel of High Falls, New York, whose mother remembered him after his suicide with a poignant message

W

• Bill Walsh of Washington, D.C., a copy editor who "relished playing the part of a curmudgeon, writing from the perspective of 'some past-his-prime newspaper guy . . . yelling at you'"

Z

• William Ziegler of New Orleans, Louisiana, whose death was, "unlike previous times ... not a ploy to avoid creditors or old girlfriends"