Kathleen Horan

Relationship Obits

The Final Resting Place for Love Gone Wrong

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Kathleen Horan is a reporter at WNYC News. She won a first place award from the Associated Press for her feature story on the lives of food delivery workers in 2005. Her work has also aired nationally and internationally on NPR, PRI and the BBC. She founded www.relationshipobit.com in February 2008.

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Kathleen Horan, a reporter at WNYC, founded relationshipobit.com when after a difficult breakup with her boyfriend, her father passed away two weeks later. As she was writing her father’s obituary, Kathleen recognized how helpful it was to have a place to celebrate that life, recognize the survivors, and put things to rest. She began to wonder what it would be like to write another obituary - this time for the death of her relationship. How it would be remembered? Cause of death? Survivors (if any)? Date of birth and the date it breathed it’s last? Thus Relationship Obits was born.