How long it really takes
Sit down today. Print and watch tomorrow.
Not instant. Not a week. About an hour today. One question at a time — skip any you do not know. Every question they answer, and the answer they give, is kept as a PDF. Family send photographs overnight. Tomorrow you have a traditional newspaper obituary — PDF to print, Word you can edit — plus the questions and answers, photo pages, and a ten-minute film.
The first file is a traditional newspaper obituary — written now, while they are still here. A PDF to print. A Word document you can edit. Use it however you want: keep it, share it, or send it to the local paper when you are ready. Papers charge hundreds for those inches. This one is yours.
You also keep every question they answered, with the answer they gave — the whole list, as a PDF. That is a keepsake from these days. Sit with them. Hear them. Fill it in. Those words stay.
You do not have to be good with phones. One question at a time. Skip any. Someone can sit with you and tap.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Under a minute · Captions on · Betty Sue, Johnny, and Annabelle
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Today — about an hour
Answer the questions that fit. Skip the rest. You do not have to finish every question. The ones you do answer come home as a PDF — each question, and the answer they gave. That is a keepsake. Sit with them. Hear them. Fill it in. Pick the photographs you have. Text a link so family add from theirs.
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Overnight — family photographs
That is the wait. People who love them pick stills on their own phones. About forty photograph spaces make a ten-minute film. A short clip uses four spaces. Not a camera-roll dump. If this story is about a child, photographs only. If you already have the pictures, you can print the same night.
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Tomorrow — print and watch
The traditional newspaper obituary is drafted from the answers — a PDF to print and a Word document you can edit and use however you want, including the local paper. You also keep every question they answered, with the answer, as a PDF. The photo pages and the ten-minute film are made from the pictures that arrived. Pay $99 once. Then print and watch.
If today is too much, the draft stays open 14 days. After $99 you have 30 days to print and watch. Three days before that day we email you so you can save.
$99, one time, on this phone. A traditional newspaper obituary you can edit in Word and use however you want — including the local paper. Not a will, not a death certificate, not a notice to creditors.