It might sound macabre, but one of the best reasons for reading
The Economist is the obituaries. The last article is always an obituary, and theirs are some of the best you'll ever read -- not least because they find people you've probably never heard of, and make you wish you had; or write ones for truly infamous people, and tell you things about them you'd never have guessed, and give the person that much more depth.
Here are some recent ones, each of which is worth reading all the way through -- perhaps more than once:
Weirdly, I often find myself skipping through the whole magazine just to read the obit.
