‘A Moral Issue’: Canadian Funeral Directors Warn of Unauthorized Obituaries

‘A Moral Issue’: Canadian Funeral Directors Warn of Unauthorized Obituaries
A general view of Woodlawn Cemetery in Saskatoon is shown on Nov. 11, 2023. The Canadian Press/Liam Richards
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Funeral directors across the country are warning grieving families about a trend of third-party websites republishing obituaries for profit.

Jim Bishop, the funeral director for Bishop’s Funeral Home in Fredericton, said he’s noticed an increase in grieving people who use his services complaining of altered death notices—sometimes with erroneous details—appearing on one such website called Echovita.