When obituaries go wrong: Why they need to come from funeral homes

Darrell Todd Maurina
6 min readAug 15, 2022

Nearly all obituaries I run at the Pulaski County Daily News come from funeral homes. There are reasons for that, and a recent obituary in The Florida Times-Union in which an adult son attacked his father for being, among other things, “narcissistic” and an “abusive alcoholic” whose death proves that “evil does eventually die” is an example of why obituaries need to come from…

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