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Maybe they figure that they have a captive client base.
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because people are dying to get noticed
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Might as well pay. You can't take it with you. And you only die once.
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Ad Cost: $28.89 Purchase Ad Joe Blow has passed away. Funeral is tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.
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Isn't a better question, "Why do people pay so much for obituary notices?" In a city like I live in you're paying to reach maybe 600,000 people when you really want to reach 100. Newspapers certainly aren't getting rich off of it and it's not like a store that's going to come back day after day.
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Because it's the last time they can stiff you.
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Gotta make money somewhere, especially now.
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Sad isn't it? I paid $45 to put a small poem in my local paper to remember my grandmother on the anniversary of her death. The newspaper called me one year later to REMIND me of her death and to tell me they could offer me a great price to put an announcement in!
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I guess because they can. And the online keepers of obituaries aren't much better. +3
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Ego, emotions and guilt are the most expensive attributes and the papers know it.
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