What's going on:
Newspapers now don't write obituaries any more.
(except for those they choose to honor)
The family writes it and pays per line.
The paper was following its policy.
It didn't 'honor' the deceased.
My opinion: It could have refused the family's submitted obituary.
Exactly right.
This is one SICK family, in denial and unable or unwilling to acknowledge the skeletons in their closet. One wonders whether prayer for the family--or Freeper/ProtestWarrior picketing the funeral--would be the higher road. Perhaps both. /sad