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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/21/2008 5:32:36 PM
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AlwaysR8chel
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.... I don't normally get the newspaper....
.... but yeah.... I do when I read it.
Is that weird?
My mom used to read them to see who was dying that was her same age... 
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/21/2008 11:26:50 PM
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I don't read them daily but my Mom does since she is a home health aide,and always likes seeing if any of her patients have died.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/22/2008 10:07:07 AM
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We don't get the paper every day either, but for some reason I end up looking at the hatched, matched and dispatched sometimes. (Births, engagements and deaths).
I get sad when I know that the person isn't a believer.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/22/2008 2:55:26 PM
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At my age now I check often to see if I know anyone or the children of those who have passed. I would hate to not attend a visitation or something because I didn't know of the passing. I usually check online, as I don't get the daily newspaper, but the 2 times a week paper that I proof pages for has an obit page too so, yeah, I check for the reasons I listed.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/22/2008 3:02:46 PM
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This time Yahoo beat NYT, which doesn't update as often.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/22/2008 3:11:33 PM
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I skim through the names in our local paper just to see if I know anyone. But, I don't read the details unless I did know them.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/25/2008 12:29:06 PM
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cherish405
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quote:
ORIGINAL: karlie
I skim through the names in our local paper just to see if I know anyone.
Sounds like me.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/25/2008 1:21:20 PM
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If I see my photo I'll read the obit.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/25/2008 11:20:31 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: karlie
I skim through the names in our local paper just to see if I know anyone. But, I don't read the details unless I did know them.
Me too.
My paper that is, not Karlie's paper.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/25/2008 11:21:15 PM
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/26/2008 11:45:57 PM
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Having grown up around a funeral home makes me interested to see who has left this world. I do not take the paper, but can read it on line every day.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/26/2008 11:56:40 PM
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I used to laugh at my mother because she always read the obits--now I am of a certain age-like old -and I read them. There are occasionally some pretty funny things written--just recently in the local paper there was one that said "He was loved by his family but he was a royal pain in the butt".
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/27/2008 4:17:44 AM
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I look through them if I have a newspaper. I don't read them thoroughly unless I find one that looks interesting. Sometimes I pray for the families, especially if it was a young person.
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/27/2008 4:53:41 PM
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My great-grandfather used to read them to see if any of his old buddies had passed away. But when he closed the paper, he would always make a comment to the effect of "Good ... my name's not in there yet ... must still be a good time to be alive"
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/29/2008 3:59:04 PM
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Isn't it odd that people die in alphabetical order?
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/29/2008 4:11:23 PM
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I read them
Every day
Every local paper
And I have since I was YOUNGER (I'm still feeling young today)
In fact, I am on the computer right now looking for information on a dear woman who passed last night.
I can get annoyed by some of the descriptions. The ones that stick out are the 'witness one last time' ones. I read one that was 'Journeyed to her heavenly home where she was welcomed into the arms of Jesus and her beloved husband.'
I joke that Poppa is NOT allowed to say anything like that. Although, we have joked 'finally tried sky diving - once'
I have seen survived by their grown child and the child's pet.
But, I feel awful when I read about some folks around here. Landed on Omaha Beach 6/6/44. Survived the Bataan Death March. Flew with this or that person on X sucessful missions. Served under this General or in these churches. So many wonderful stories that I will never hear....
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RE: reading death notices/obits? - 7/30/2008 6:35:15 AM
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I've followed in my mom's footsteps and have started reading them too. On our papers, sometimes someone will list the names of everyone in that 4-generation family left behind and I go through it to see if there's someone I might know.
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