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Imagine your obituary being hidden behind a paywall.
by dewski 3y ago
Imagine your obituary being hidden behind a paywall.
- Aperocky 3y agoThat is outrageous, I think most? present media sites have control over which article to paywall, to paywall an obituary is baffling at best.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoWhy would I expect someone to host/write it for free?
- dylan604 3y agoWhen were obits ever free? The family typically paid to run an obit in the paper. I can't imagine why it would be any different. After that, people had to pay $0.25 to $2.00 for the paper to see them.
- krustyburger 3y agoNewspapers used to cost a lot less than $0.25 and the ones still printed today tend to cost more than $2.
- douglasisshiny 3y agoIsn't that just inflation?
- dylan604 3y agowhat's your point?
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- kube-system 3y agoYeah, around the same time a decent wage used to be $20k.
- tbossanova 3y agoLibraries typically keep archives of newspapers accessible for free. I imagine the long record of obituaries in this archive would be invaluable for certain types of research.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoI’m somewhat surprised a WikiObituary doesn’t exist yet, with them collectively written and crowdsourced prior to death and licensed permissively. Wikipedia + ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting perhaps for the rough cut, and then clean it up. Might try to find some time to spike a GPT or something and see what happens.
- tagami 3y agoIf you're old enough Facebook, becomes this.
- xyst 3y agookay, I might roll in my grave if an obit is published in fb Adding that to my will: - under zero circumstances will you publish any posthumous docs/writings/obituaries to Meta, Facebook, or anything bearing Zuckerberg’s name - all to be made available publicly, any fees associated to be paid out of estate
- xyst 3y agoI’ll be dead. I wouldn’t give af if it was written on toilet paper. Obituaries are more for the living to help with the grieving process. When my grandparents passed, I think my parents and extended family wrote something and submitted that to the local newspaper. In a way, it’s always been like that. I guess.