Things were certainly lively in obits yesterday!! We processed 54 of them, with an additional 12 pendings.Big numbers kept my fingers flying until 5:15 instead of the usual 3:30. Honestly, after a day like that, I am happy to be off today.
It's fun though. Especially when there is time to read each one in its entirety. Not the short death notices so much, which mostly give names of survivors and service times,though sometimes there is space to slip in one important fact, but the long story obits filled with wonderful nuggets.
I encourage you to read them. And maybe someday my employer will take me up on my idea of a weekly "treasure hunt" in obits, to encourage a younger readership. We'll see...
And please, write your own obit!! And make it good, as (maybe?) only you can do. It's your last hooray as it were, until we meet up with you again, so give us the best you've got. You'll be happy to know that as obit prices go, ours are some of the cheapest around. :-)
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