death notice vs obituary

death notice

obituary

adj
  • Relating to the death of a person. 

noun
  • A register of deaths in a monastery. 

  • A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper. 

  • A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper. 

How often have the words death notice and obituary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )