You may be right. It could be something more sinister.
i read in Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Diary”,(published in Autumn, 1930) that he noticed the obits from rural areas were getting significantly higher in number and shorter in length.
“Beloved grandmother, passed away suddenly”.
This was at the time the Nazis were cleaning out the old age homes and mental wards of “Lives devoid of value”, as they called them.
Omg....your post just gave me chills!!
I think something is up, with the new, no story written obits. Just really strange.