why don’t obitiuary sites believe in paragraph breaks FFS?
It’s because newspapers charge by the line, and many funeral homes don’t bother to reformat the obit for their own website.
Interestingly enough, there is a whole genre of self-written/family-written funny obituaries, and they often borrow the same same jokes and tropes from previous funny obits. Sometimes the “self-written” obit is just a patchwork of pieces of other obits pasted together.
Mr. Heller’s seems to be mostly original as far as I can tell, but this bit is a very common trope:
If there was ever a treasure that he snatched out from under you among the mounds of junk, please wait the appropriate amount of time to contact the family to claim your loot. We’re available tomorrow.
