What’s the next great idea in magazines, asks Russ Smith? Obituaries. It’s a winner, he writes. Everyone’s interested in dead people. “It’s long been a truism that the most popular features of a daily newspaper are the sports pages, comics and death notices. In many cases, people over 40 turn to the day’s obituaries first, not only for morbid fascination, but because they recognize the names of famous men and women or, on a local level, neighbors and friends. Obviously, there wouldn’t be a shortage of material for such an enterprise.”