Obituaries published in the The Minnesota Star Tribune on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 included:

Burton "Burt" Cohen

died on May 10, 2025. He was 94 1/2 and overweight. He was given plenty of advance notice of his imminent death, but his lifelong habit of procrastination meant he didn't write this obituary until pretty much the last minute, thereby sacrificing fact checking, proofreading and style. Readers please note.

He died not of flabbiness, as had been widely predicted, but of advanced aortic stenosis, after choosing to reject the surgical procedures that would have corrected the problem. "It would have been like putting a new set of tires on an old jalopy," he said, "Almost every other body part or function was deteriorating at an accelerating rate and wouldn't have supported new tires for very long. The two exceptions were my appendix and my hair follicles, which were still performing well, and I feel bad they had to go with the rest."

Burt was born in and spent most of his life in Minneapolis, with two gaps: two years in humid, roach-infested Augusta, Georgia, where he was stationed with the U.S. Army; and five years in wonderful, wonderful New York, where he worked at something.

The obit goes on, with humor to the end, and can be read in its entirety here. Cohen was founding publisher of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.