The Obituary of the Year

'His regrets were few, but include eating a rotisserie hot dog from an unmemorable convenience store in the summer of 1986.'

In a year that saw the passing of so many titanic celebrities, perhaps the biggest surprise is that the most memorable obituary of 2016 belonged to none of them. Rather, it was written for Chris Connors, a Quincy, Mass. native who died in Maine Dec. 9 at age 67 due to complications from ALS and pancreatic cancer.

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