Why do obituaries give the cause of death? Seems morbid to me.

Why do obituaries give the cause of death? Seems morbid to me.
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Well, if you KNEW the person and hadn’t seen them in a while, you may be curious. Unless the person was incredibly old, I’d want to know how they died. If a high school friend of mine died, they’d be under 45, and still fairly young to die. I’d want to know what happened.
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