Funeral notice in local paper - how much?

swingaloo

In our area there is a facebook page for the local village called Then and Now.


Not a day goes by without there being someone's death reported on there. It has notices from relatives of people who had moved many miles away letting all their old friends and acquaintances know.

Perhaps you could try the page for the area f the people you are trying to inform.

Dymphna60

Death notices are often really information about the funeral notices.
I would think that most mature people would expect to find this out from the local paper rather than a free posting on a Facebook page .
However it is expensive and if you don’t have the money you don’t . Also would depend on how many people you are trying to reach . I know I could not have coped with trying to let 100 people know by word of mouth.

McKneff

I ve told mine expressly that i need no notices in the paper when i pop me clogs.
I really dont care how many folk are at my funeral.

Why doez it matter to the living ?

duchy

McKneff wrote: »

I ve told mine expressly that i need no notices in the paper when i pop me clogs.
I really dont care how many folk are at my funeral.

Why doez it matter to the living ?

Funerals aren't to benefit the dead but to help the living ,what matters is different to different people. I do think leaving clear instructions can be a way to discourage the bereaved from overdoing arrangements and costs though

Newly_retired

Our local paper is just a half a page in the paper of a nearby town, so is hardly likely to be read by many people. Best to make sure about this before you waste money.

izzy65

Our local paper has a hatched matched and dispatched, ( births, marriage and death ), they charge by the word so the shorter the less exspensive.

Savvy_Sue

Malthusian wrote: »

How many people actually read the death notices cover to cover to check if anyone they know has died?

I realise that some people d'un certain age do, but I would have thought that word of mouth would do the heavy lifting, with a death notice standing a fairly low chance of reaching anyone who is isolated from that network.

My late mother used to ...

We found it was expensive, and put both funeral and 'thanks' notices for both parents - for the first to die because the survivor wanted us to, and for the second to die because we daren't do anything less or they'd have come back to haunt us ...

I would think laterally about this: both parents did have quite a varied circle of activities, so we could probably have got away with a notice at the day centre they used regularly, at their church, and at the various groups they went to. If you can identify similar, then the paper becomes less important, IMO.

Flugelhorn

izzy65 wrote: »

Our local paper has a hatched matched and dispatched, ( births, marriage and death ), they charge by the word so the shorter the less exspensive.

the one we used had this but seems some of them have sold out to external companies who do all the coordinating and make money for the paper

Flugelhorn

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

My late mother used to ...

Mine too !

I would think laterally about this: both parents did have quite a varied circle of activities, so we could probably have got away with a notice at the day centre they used regularly, at their church, and at the various groups they went to. If you can identify similar, then the paper becomes less important, IMO.

This is often a good route in smallish towns, jungle telegraph via the local church(es) and Waitrose was phenomenal. (I suspect more effective than the little announcement)

I realised how effective it was, I did very little informing personally
but looking at how many birthday cards (1) and Xmas cards (0) were forwarded to me after her death (she used to get an enormous number) it must have worked.

AnotherJoe

Malthusian wrote: »

How many people actually read the death notices cover to cover to check if anyone they know has died?

I realise that some people d'un certain age do, but I would have thought that word of mouth would do the heavy lifting, with a death notice standing a fairly low chance of reaching anyone who is isolated from that network.

Exactly.
What % of gm's social circle read the paper?
What % of those read the death notices?
What % of those didn't hear via the grapevine anyway?


I would concentrate on the grapevine, ask a few key people to reach out, write to people in her address book.

When my mum died, there may have been a few people who didn't hear via the various groups she was in, of her death but in that case my view would have been, had i thought about it (which i didn't), they weren't that close they needed a notice in the paper anyway.