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Shameless commerce, obituary style
Dec. 13th, 2020 02:50 pmCar Talk used to have a "shameless commerce" division that I guess sold merch. Might still. I thought of them when we were preparing the obituary for my father. It is/was a big priority for my parents. The print newspaper is still read in the house. My mother cuts out the obituaries of people she went to high school with and carefully files them in the correct photo page of her 1946 (her graduation year) yearbook. So we made a big effort to get it ready in time to be in today's newspapers (both owned by the same company, but with slightly different geographical focus). It is very expensive, but worth it, and print newspapers have to find *somewhere* to gouge in the current hard times.
The obituaries are also online at legacy.com. I had read others there in the past, and told the guy at the funeral home that I was rather offended by the ads. The featured products aren't *bad.* There is nothing especially wrong with flowers or trees, but when the family chose a charity and word for word stated "in lieu of flowers..." it's annoying to see the "send flowers" button so prominent. Funeral director told me that most US funeral homes use the site as is, and he couldn't do anything about it.
I think it's a good thing otherwise, and understand that the ads keep it from being behind a paywall (which a page in the regular newspaper's site might be), but it's annoying.
Here it is:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldsun/obituary.aspx?n=william-taylor-dickerson&pid=197278008&fhid=16884
The Herald Sun comes to the house. I walked up to the Walgreens to buy the News & Observer. We did not put a notice in the Triangle Tribune, the Black-owned paper in the area. I've never read it, but one of their caregivers does.
The obituaries are also online at legacy.com. I had read others there in the past, and told the guy at the funeral home that I was rather offended by the ads. The featured products aren't *bad.* There is nothing especially wrong with flowers or trees, but when the family chose a charity and word for word stated "in lieu of flowers..." it's annoying to see the "send flowers" button so prominent. Funeral director told me that most US funeral homes use the site as is, and he couldn't do anything about it.
I think it's a good thing otherwise, and understand that the ads keep it from being behind a paywall (which a page in the regular newspaper's site might be), but it's annoying.
Here it is:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldsun/obituary.aspx?n=william-taylor-dickerson&pid=197278008&fhid=16884
The Herald Sun comes to the house. I walked up to the Walgreens to buy the News & Observer. We did not put a notice in the Triangle Tribune, the Black-owned paper in the area. I've never read it, but one of their caregivers does.
