Who writes obituaries?
Anyone can write an obituary, including you! You don’t have to be a professional writer to write a good obituary. The best obituaries are written by non-professionals who loved the person who [...]
Anyone can write an obituary, including you! You don’t have to be a professional writer to write a good obituary. The best obituaries are written by non-professionals who loved the person who [...]
Any close relative or friend of the deceased person can write the obituary. Many funeral homes offer this service as well. However, before you ask a stranger to write the final story about your [...]
An obituary should be written by someone who loved and admired the deceased person. Obituaries are often written by a family member, or group of family members. But anyone who can add loving [...]
If you’re a famous person, like a public figure, celebrity, athlete, author, musician, scoundrel, etc., it’s possible the newspapers have already written your obituary. Newspapers write [...]
Obituaries are not automatically written by the obituary fairies. They must be written by a family member, friend, funeral home staff member, professional writer, or someone else. And obituaries [...]
It would be difficult to make an obituary private – especially in the case of a notable public figure or celebrity. Because an obituary is an announcement of someone’s death, they are usually [...]
Wow, interesting question. We have never considered this. First, we’re not tax experts. Not at all. We pay someone to do our taxes. But, according to our 30-second research on this subject, the [...]
An obituary is not a legal document. It has no legal significance. When it’s published in a newspaper, it’s technically considered a news story. Need help writing an obituary? Read our Obituary [...]
Obituaries are not mandatory. They are not required by law to be written or published. But … if you’re considering skipping the obituary because it’s too overwhelming to write or you don’t think [...]
Copyright law is not our expertise. And copyright law and obituaries is a rather complicated matter so we suggest heading over to The US Gen Web Project and reading their page on copyright law. [...]