WOLF: Does anyone else regularly read the obituaries?

Anyone else routinely read the obituaries?
I’ve read newspapers, in print and later online, for as long as I can remember. Still do, every day.
But only recently have I begun to semi-regularly check the obituaries (of my hometown paper). Is that morbid? A routine concession to advancing age? Just something lots of folks do because it’s part of the package?
Obviously I’ve been aware of the obits all this time and have unfortunately read many of the over the year when some I knew