[Red_Devil 232]

"... YOU (meaning me or whoever the person left to write the obit is) write the obituary and send it in to the paper."

My experience is that most newspaper obits are submitted to the paper by the funeral home (you or a family member discuss the obit with the funeral director and he sends it to the paper). It is the only way or local newspaper will accept an obit.

[Lx]

Well, that wasn't what happened in my case. Our local paper, The Bee simply took the obit I wrote along with the picture I digitized and sent them and published it for free.

There isn't a funeral director for a cremation, just a sleazy sales guy trying to guilt you into buying an overpriced urn. I kind of liked the solution in the Big Lebowsky.