What Would You Want Your One-Sentence NY Times Obit To Say?

Micheline Maynard
4 min readMay 24, 2020

The United States has lost nearly 100,000 people to COVID-19, in what seems an extraordinarily compressed amount of time.

Even though the numbers seem hard to grasp, these people all led lives, too. Or, as the New York Times put it on Sunday, “They were not simply names on a list. They were us.”

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