Title: MSU study: What obituaries reveal about a life well-lived
Article Snip: "...What constitutes a life well-lived? A new Michigan State University-led study is turning to a common cultural artifact to find out: the obituary.
In the study, published in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS, researchers from MSU, Boston College and Arizona State University analyzed 38 million obituaries from the U.S. spanning 30 years to examine what values people are most remembered for, how cultural events and time change how people are remembered, and how legacy reflections reinforce societal expectations of a life well-lived based on demographics. ..."
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