Guest book on my husbands obituary only u for 1 month
@shaggin (74987)
United States
April 5, 2011 9:34am CST
I just went to look at my husbands obituary online. The newspaper that it was printed in partners with legacy.com to provide a guest book for people to leave comments after viewing my husbands obituary. There is 9 pages of comments people left. I see that it says it will only be available until April 23 which is exactly 1 month from the date the obituary went into the paper. If we want to keep the guest book active for a year we have to pay $29.99. If we want it to stay up permanently we have to pay $79.99. To me that is sad that it will be deleted but I dont want to pay $80 just to have the guest book viewable permanently. Kind of sad how nothing can just be free that everyone is always out to get as much money out of people as they can.
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@bounce58 (17380)
• Canada
8 Apr 11
I think a month is already enough. I don't think you don't have to extend it.
If you can print it directly from the screen, I suggest that you just do that as a cheaper alternative.
I also read here that it might be difficult for you to print it out from your printer or from the library. I suggest that you just print it out as a pdf, and save a soft copy. You don't have to print it now.
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
9 Apr 11
Hmm that is an interesting idea I dont have to print it now I could just save it as a file on my desktop. That was a really good idea I'm glad you thought of that. That way if I get a new printer or get this new one that only worked one time fixed then I can print it out. I would have liked to just go online and see the obituary and guestbook now and then over the years but oh well I guess.
@moondancer (7431)
• United States
6 Apr 11
They are not the only ones that do this. The hospitals do too when you have the newborn babies pictures taken they put it online and then they give you a link to give your friends and family. You have a code to be able to open the link. But once it's opened then if you want to get a picture you must pay for them or a package and they are there for just a certain amount of time.
I think the WalMart photo section does the same thing so I think this is becoming the rage of how places are doing things.
I guess it cuts down on their paper work.
All things are put on computers.
I feel bad or when the computers go bad or the power goes out and no one can get to the information on the computers. We will all be lost.
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@moondancer (7431)
• United States
6 Apr 11
Oh wow that is cool. I guess it depends on the hospital.
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
6 Apr 11
Wow I didnt know hospitals take the baby pictures down. I know that the hospital where I had my children at I didnt buy either picture but I did have it put online. They are still there even after all these years you can search through the archives and find your childrens pictures.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
5 Apr 11
When my foster mom passed I created a free online guestbook for her friends to view and sign, and could leave it up as long as I wanted. It's probably still out there somewhere, I've just forgotten how to access it now.
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
6 Apr 11
Aww thats sad that you forgot how to access it. It would probably be nice to go through and look at what was written. Its nice to see how many lives our loved ones have touched. Jim getting 9 pages of comments on his guest book was really nice. I know he touched a lot more peoples lives then that but many people dont know they can write something on the guestbook and some just dont feel comfortable.
@Nadinest1 (2016)
• Canada
5 Apr 11
I don't think there will be very many more condolences after a month anyway. Why don't you print out the pages of the comments? It might be nice for your kids to read when they get older.
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
6 Apr 11
Unfortunately my printer doesnt work. To print out 9 pages at the library would take awhile and cost 25 cents each page. The only comment on the guest book that was entirely directed towards me was an old co-worker I worked with about 8 years ago. I miss her. I wondered if she had heard about my husbands passing. I was very close to her when I worked with her and she knew me before I married my husband.
