When I first saw this I thought it related to how we cope when one of us, or those very near to us, die.  I have often wondered.  I think I would not want the majority of members to know I had been bereaved, but I would sure as hell want all the support and sympathy I could get.  It might be more helpful if I could continue posting here without most knowing my situation.  My mother was in a fairly serious situation twice within the last year, and it was a relief to post here when it was not known.  I do not want to sweep death and loss under the carpet.  I just want to cope.

My reaction for other obituaries is that they would be better in the Literature, Cinema, Music or wherever thread. 

I'm inclined to agree with you.  Also though, don't care much about making a fuss.

I agree that it's a tricky (and very individual) decision. My mother died very suddenly just over a year ago (whilst I was away on a school residential trip) and I didn't post about it here. I suppose I didn't want people to post messages of sympathy, kind though that would have been. I felt completely numb and it was only keeping busy which kept me going, organising the funeral with my sister and clearing/selling the flat. Logging in here and reading posts was a sign that normality existed (well, sort of!). Now that I've met several of you, I may have had a different approach.

         "Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
          If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now;
          if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves,
          what is't to leave betimes?"                Hamlet  Act V, Sc II

Unless I've misunderstood what kind of threads we're talking about here, I'm quite opposed to the idea of collecting them all together. Often when someone has died, it's led to discussion of their work, sometimes quite extensive - e.g. Stockhausen (although he also has a separate thread), Solzhenitsyn (though there the discussion focused more on his personal beliefs than his literary work), also several other examples I remember well, some of which taught me a lot about various writers in particular.

I don't see these as being strongly different in kind from other posts, e.g. about someone winning a prize, which have also in the past sparked off discussion about artists and their work.

Especially now that we have dedicated boards for each of the arts, surely the best place for them to go is on the board related to the art-form in question. Also, in terms of navigation, the search function shouldn't be too bad at coming up with obituary threads since they almost invariably contain the name of the person in question in the thread title.

May be I am inclined to vote against the thread with this name. It will fill me with dread to wait who is going to be put there next.
It could be one of us or some famous people (some of us are famour).  May be it makes me sound like I want to sweep death under the carpet.

I also will not object if there will be such thread. I will probably think every time I see the thread: Here we go again. May be they could the thread on the subject can be stored in some area after the event. 

Ignorance! Ex cusa!

As regards Option 1 - Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, that link, as reported on the BBC,  linking Dylan Thomas, the Welsh, alcohol, Rev. James, Brains, Abertawe and agriculture are completely unfounded.