The Other View

I think the Current and the Leader will still print a free Obit....... With all the junk charges that are surfacing in the world I wonder how anybody is going to be able to afford anything.......

First off I would be ticked off big time if my family spent $500 on a obituary. I'm dead. If they want to honor me donate the money to charity not some after-death personal advertisment.

The people who know me know who I am and dont need a full page story. If you dont know me then why do you care how many grandkids I have or where I graduated high school? Its TOO LATE to get to know me now.

For some families its like a contest. The bigger the ad the more loved that person was. The papers may just profiting off this NEED to prove how loved this now deceased person was.

Yes what a ripoff..... There is still a station here in our town that gives free air...... Man what a rare find......

I'm looking for pay toliets to come back around.....

The only free obit I was offered was for the local small town papers. All the others, the POST, the ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL_REGISTER and the Alton Telegragh, they all wanted no less than a $100 for it.
Our pastor charged $100 for the funeral service, but in turn, he gave it back to the funeral director to put on the funeral bill.
It is rediculous to charge for obit notices. They should be charging for engagements and births like Mr_Wild said.

I worked for postnet.com (it now has another name) about 10 years ago and they said the paper had always charged for obits.

They have always considered them a classified, this is nothing new ... and at the time, you could only find them under the classified listings online ...

... I had to answer all the e-mails asking where they were.


-- Jill --
The Web Chick

in hermann we have death cards too, when someone dies a guy runs around town and drops a card with the funeral info off at all the buisnesses so everyone knows... and the funeral home web site has a full obituary up almost imidiatly after the family makes the arrangments

How I love small town life. As far as I know there is no charge for the obituary, its a community service. The funeral homes put out the death cards too, its great, if you don't hear about the death by word of mouth or on the community deaths over the radio you can go into almost every business in town and there it is with all the info. We even have cemeteries around here where you don't even have to buy your plot. Small town life is great!

In todays world the media is the cornerstone of what society is and does so it would make sense that people are paying dearly to take part in the advertising frenzy. Its the way of corporate America for the consumer to pay for everything that they do, if not up front they'll let ya make payments. It gets worse when find out what is actuall being paid for: our own deaths. Which brings me to a question, what does the American People think about FEMA operated concentration camps, sorry, 'civilaian labor camps' poping up all over America that come complete with rail access, barbed-wire fencing/guard towers, gas chambers and furnaces? What do you think? Is it time to wake up and start thinking for ourselves or is it more of a sign to go back to sleep and let our government keep 'on track' with operations like this? Follow the link to view the video and think for yourself.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-hvPJPTi4

The Post did offer a free 1 or 2 line obit. I dont know if they still do - Im waiting for them to charge each time you search on the web i have ran across a few medical papers/reports they expect you to pay for .
whatcahgonna do ?