This data is probably seriously undercounted. Someone mentioned recently somewhere in the Stacks that maybe some people aren't getting obituaries. I forget the reason they stated but maybe one reason is this tough economy and/or maybe prices for obits have increased lately where people can't get one. There was a man I knew last year who …
This data is probably seriously undercounted. Someone mentioned recently somewhere in the Stacks that maybe some people aren't getting obituaries. I forget the reason they stated but maybe one reason is this tough economy and/or maybe prices for obits have increased lately where people can't get one. There was a man I knew last year who died from glioblastoma and I never saw an obit. I admit I just figured I missed it. I didn't know him or his family well so I thought that I just didn't look in the right place. Maybe he never got one. He was the sole breadwinner for the family. Maybe they wanted to keep every cent for the family.
Indeed--I was standing in grocery aisle, overheard a woman chatting with another, saying she was on her way to the newspaper office to enter the obituary for their mutual friend. The hearer remarked something to the effect of 'she was too young to die!' ( at which point I pretended to be seriously considering the items on the shelf so to eavesdrop, as I wondered if hearer's response indicated jab death)
This very true which is why I now check all my local funeral homes - nothing worse than finding out someone died and you didn't attend the services because there was NO OBIT!
This data is probably seriously undercounted. Someone mentioned recently somewhere in the Stacks that maybe some people aren't getting obituaries. I forget the reason they stated but maybe one reason is this tough economy and/or maybe prices for obits have increased lately where people can't get one. There was a man I knew last year who died from glioblastoma and I never saw an obit. I admit I just figured I missed it. I didn't know him or his family well so I thought that I just didn't look in the right place. Maybe he never got one. He was the sole breadwinner for the family. Maybe they wanted to keep every cent for the family.
As far as I know you only get an obituary if someone writes one and sends to a paper. Not everyone has someone to do that.
My Get Up and Go Has Got Up and Went
Author Unknown
How do I know that my youth is all spent?
Well, my get up and go has got up and went,
But in spite of it all I am able to grin.
When I think of the places my get up has been.
Old age is golden, So I've heard said
But sometimes I wonder, as I get into bed.
With my ears in a drawer, my teeth in a cup
And my eyes on the table until I wake up.
Ere sleep dims my eyes I say to myself
"Is there anything else I can put on the shelf?"
And I'm happy to say as I close the door
"My friends are the same, perhaps even more."
When I was a young thing my slippers were red,
I could kick my heels as high as my head.
Then when I was older, my slippers were blue,
But still I could walk the whole day through.
Now I'm still older, my slippers are black.
I walk to the store and puff my way back.
The reason I know my youth is all spent,
My get up and go has got up and went.
But really, I don't mind when I think with a grin,
Of all the grand places my get up has been.
Since I have retired from life's competition
I busy myself with complete repetition.
I get up each morning and dust off my wits,
Pick up the paper and read the 'obits',
If my name is missing I know I'm not dead
So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
Indeed--I was standing in grocery aisle, overheard a woman chatting with another, saying she was on her way to the newspaper office to enter the obituary for their mutual friend. The hearer remarked something to the effect of 'she was too young to die!' ( at which point I pretended to be seriously considering the items on the shelf so to eavesdrop, as I wondered if hearer's response indicated jab death)
Great point. And as civilization crumbles, these normal rites like obits will be left behind.
This very true which is why I now check all my local funeral homes - nothing worse than finding out someone died and you didn't attend the services because there was NO OBIT!
This too is the latest!