Funeral notice in local paper - how much?

elsien

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.

Quite a lot, apparently. When my grandmother died she'd been in a care home and only a couple of people kept in touch, but the turnout at her funeral was big. Fairly sure that was the paper and not word of mouth because I'd never met any of them.

GDB2222

It's possible that burglars scan these notices.

Silvertabby

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's possible that burglars scan these notices.

They do. There had been a rash of these 'funeral' burglaries at the time my dad died - so before we left for the funeral we borrowed a neighbour's rugby playing son and a couple of his mates, who were happy to house sit and watch Sky sports.

Sure enough, during the time of the funeral service, a couple of dodgy looking blokes knocked on the door. They clearly didn't expect the door to be answered, because the mumbled something about 'sorry - wrong house' - and shot off.

elsien

How do they know where the person lived if all the notice says is name and funeral arrangements?

Silvertabby

elsien wrote: »

How do they know where the person lived if all the notice says is name and funeral arrangements?

Very small town. Agree it may not be such a problem in a large town or city.

Dymphna60

If you are really worried that burglars use this method you should really arrange the funeral away from your local area .
A quick ‘google ‘ tells you the name , date and time of every cremation and interment booked in the council area .

SevenOfNine

Bit puzzled by your quote OP, I've just had a quick look https://funeral-notices.co.uk/help/how_to_book_a_notice & started compiling a fake obituary.

With a 'free photo' uploaded from my PC & a border, full name, maiden name, sadly passed away at hospice name on 18/01/19. Much loved Mum & Granny. Funeral place, date, time. All welcome, family flowers only but donations appreciated for made up charity c/o full funeral directors name/address inc postcode.

Would be in a Kent newspaper & on-line on the Funeral Notices site. Only thing I left off was the names of every offspring of the deceased plus their grandchildren & great grandchildren.

The whole 'proof' is there for me to see straight away (with a spellcheck for some of my errors), each time I added/removed a little the price updated if it took more/less space.

No idea why you got a quote of £133, perhaps an expensive area or you've written half of War & Peace...…...my quote was less than £65!

Only thing it wasn't clear about was when it would be placed, but that may become clearer if I had gone any further with the purchase. You should probably look again at what is actually necessary in regard to wording & maybe you've picked more publications than you need.

katiepoppycat

Thaks for all the advice - SevenofNine, when I started with her local paper, that was the price it gave me. The funeral director has said he can deal direct with them so we'll so how that goes. He's looked after us before so I trust him.


ETA - They just called with the final price - over £200 including vat. Apparently the Rochdale Observer is part of the Manchester Evening News so you pay the same rate as if it were the Manchester Evening News. I know many of you said it wasn't necessary, and in the future I can see it won't be. But my Nana was 85, and people of her generation do keep up with the obituaries so it was necessary. I just feel gouged - so many other big companies have been so ethical in their dealings with me that this came as quite a surprise!