I have not read the print edition of the Boston Globe for quite a while. When I read today's Globe I was quite surprised by the death notices. It used to be that obituaries were five or six lines of facts - name of the deceased, town of residence, names of spouses and children, name of funeral parlor and date and place of internment service. That's not the case any longer. Many obituaries are much like those in the Sunday NY Times - a brief biography and sometimes a photograph.
It's ironic that the increased revenue from obituaries (they are not free) is helping to slow the revenue decline of the Globe and perhaps other newspapers.
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