Hospice · seventy-nine
Betty Sue
She picked the pictures. The written words are hers.
Open the questions they answered (PDF)
Download the questions they answered (Word)
Open the newspaper obituary (PDF)
Living Obituary
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The newspaper will not sit with them. A funeral home will write what it can after they are gone. Living Obituary helps families keep a loved one's story in their own words while that person can still take part and share the details only they know. Many families are already looking for something meaningful to do before their loved one passes, and this gives them that opportunity. Above all, it brings families closer. Working through these questions about a loved one's life opens up conversations that might otherwise never happen. Families find themselves truly connecting, and it gives them something meaningful to do together during the visits and time they share in those last days. Because the family does this work together while their loved one is still here, the end isn't a scramble. They leave with what they need for the newspaper, the memorial, and the grief that follows — so they're ready for what comes next.
Sit down today. Print and watch tomorrow.
Giving · $10 of the $99 goes to a charity near you.

PDF and Word. For the paper, or for the drawer.

One picture, their words under it.

About ten minutes. Their stills, in order.

PowerPoint. Connect to a TV or projector.
Also kept: every question they answered, with the answer.
$99 once. Draft 14 days. After pay you have 30 days to download.
Betty Sue in hospice. Johnny at twenty-seven. Annabelle at five. They prove the files.
How it works
Sit with them while they are still here. Hear them. Keep every answer. You leave with a traditional newspaper obituary — written now, in Word — photo pages you can hold, and a ten-minute film. Those words stay.
Under a minute · Captions on · Betty Sue, Johnny, and Annabelle
Then open a finished package — Betty Sue’s newspaper obituary, photo pages, film, and the questions she answered.
Living obituaries
Open both PDFs for each person, and the Word file they can edit. First, every question they answered, with the answer — that list is a keepsake from these days. Then the newspaper living obituary those answers became — PDF to print, Word to edit. No pictures on those pages. Photo pages and the film are separate.
Hospice · seventy-nine
She picked the pictures. The written words are hers.
Open the questions they answered (PDF)
Download the questions they answered (Word)
Open the newspaper obituary (PDF)
Twenty-seven · months, not years
He served one tour. Young enough that people think there is time. He is making his living obituary now so the people who love him already have his story.
Open the questions they answered (PDF)
Download the questions they answered (Word)
Open the newspaper obituary (PDF)
Five · Harbor Mill
A tumor in her brain they cannot take. Her parents are making it with her, not after her.
Open the questions they answered (PDF)
Download the questions they answered (Word)
Open the newspaper obituary (PDF)
One package · one payment
$99
One memory package. Sit today. Family send photographs overnight. Tomorrow you print the living obituary, print the photo pages, watch the ten-minute film, and open the PowerPoint. Connect to a TV or projector. $99 once. You keep the files for 30 days after pay.
Optional gathering · $29 — invitation, order of the day, celebrant papers, remembrance. PDF and Word.
More photographs · $25 — up to 200. Film stays about ten minutes.
$99
$10
to a local charity
Ten dollars of the $99 is already in the price.
It is not added on.
Type the code from the pamphlet at pay.
That $10 goes to a charity tied to the place you are in — the hospice, hospital, or care center. Most times it is their own foundation or comfort fund.
No code is fine. You can still buy.