The obit in the newspapers

WRITING OBITS. A journalism professor from Hawaii says obituaries in Phl newspapers are stereotypes. “No class, no originality,” she told an Ear informer. “Most of your obits are copied from obits already published many times over,” she said. She shared that in many places in Europe and America today “obits have class, they have style, they have art.”

TRIBUTE. “She said the obit should be considered a final tribute to the dead, so it must be done in style in honor of and out of respect to the dead.” She said some newspapers in Europe have obituary departments where “competent writers” are assigned to write good obits.