This makes sense to me, as I can often tell by reading the obit which funeral home it will be from. We have one particular Afro-American funeral home that writes the most beautiful obits, a real family history. Steven Coker wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > > I believe obits, like everything else that has been written, are copyrighted. > > They were written by someone--either a member of the family, or most often, > > the newspaper.... > > I've written two newspaper obituaries for close relatives. My understanding, > based on experience, about the way obituaries are done these days is something > like this. The Funeral Home requests information from the family or other > survivors regarding the deceased. The Funeral Home then, with that information, > writes an obituary using a standard format used by that Funeral Home. The > Funeral Home asks the family to approve the obituary. The Funeral Home then > submits the obituary to the newspaper for publication. > > However, I believe that the family or anyone else could prepare the obituary and > submit it directly to the newspaper for publication. But, I think that most > obituaries are submitted through the Funeral Home. I believe that newspapers > generally don't write obituaries these days. Rather, I think that they merely > report death information submitted by others. So, the Funeral Home would > probably know better than the newspaper who actually prepared any given > obituary. > > Steve Coker > http://scroots.org/ -- L. L. Scott, IBSSG L. L. Scott's Virtual Office: http://www.geocities.com/~llscott/ BEAR/ BRANNAN/ BRICKER/ BRIDGE/ BACKUS/ BRAUN/ DOTY/ HARPER/ HATCH/ PLANK