I don't miss the point at all. If I ran that zoo I would MAKE SURE that the folks who post obits did a NAME SEARCH OF THEIR OWN PAPER to see if the deceased was listed in any other story. It would be standard operating procedure. A deceased person if FAR DIFFERENT from a car, for pete's sake....SHEESH!
And so what if there is? Many deaths are reported in the news, and sometimes there is controversy, blame and criminal allegations surrounding deaths. That's the news. They ran the news story about the deaths... In the Obit, the family buys their space to say what they want. It isn't news, it's a classified. The safest position for the paper is to not maintain any responsibility to fact check claims in obituaries, beyond checking for an actual death certificate so people can't 'fake' death on people that are living. You want them looking into whether or not your relative was actually well liked in life or whether his employer really liked him in his 20 years of service? How about whether you can say something nice about a relative that, unfortunately, got drunk and smashed his car into a tree?