Each society has its own “death system” composed of people, places, time, objects, and symbols. All kinds of death news including obituaries are an integral part of death system in a mediated society. Following the dominant academic tradition of obituary studies – “sex discrimination / differences in the obituary,” this article further draws upon Pierre Bourdieu’s capital theory to explore obituary stories of social elites in China. Choosing a sample of obituaries (N = 500) from the People’s Daily during 1995 and 2014, the article content analyzes how decedents’ cultural, power, social, and symbolic capitals are represented. In contrast with the pessimistic conclusion of “the discriminated female” in the existing literature, that of this article is much more positive: Female is not on a par with male’s chance of becoming obituary objects, but, once they get a chance, their “represented capitals” are not necessarily at a disadvantage, with several important aspects in which they have signifcant competitive advantages.