Death announcements · $7.99
A death announcement, written three ways
The first thing you have to write is the hardest and the most public. Send the details once and receive three versions — short for social media, medium for a newspaper, and a full one for cards and letters.
Delivered within 24 hours · Written by a person · Secure and confidential
The first thing you have to write
Public, permanent, and due immediately
Within hours of a death, someone in the family has to tell everyone else. It will be read by people who loved them, people who worked with them, and people who have not been in touch for twenty years — and it has to be right the first time, because it cannot be unsent.
The difficulty is that one wording cannot serve all three places. A post needs to be short and gentle; a newspaper notice has its own conventions and a word limit; a letter or a card can say considerably more. So we write all three from the same set of details.
What you receive
Three versions, one set of details
Short — for social media
A few lines that carry the news gently and give people somewhere to direct their condolences, without putting private details in a public feed.
Medium — for a newspaper
Written to the conventions of a published notice: names, dates, family, service details and donations, in the order newspapers expect.
Complete — for cards and letters
A fuller version for writing to people individually, with room for the detail a public notice cannot carry.
Yours to adjust
Use them as they arrive or change a line. Tell us what the family would rather not make public and it stays out of all three.
How it works
Three steps, done today
1
Send the details
Their name, the date, the close family, and the service details if you have them. If some of it is still unknown, say so — that is normal at this stage.
2
We write all three
A writer shapes the same facts into three versions pitched for three different places, each one checked for what should and should not be public.
3
Send them out
They arrive within 24 hours. Post one, send one to the paper, and use the third for the letters — or adjust any of them first.
Ready when you are
One price for all three versions
Three Death Announcements
Short, medium and complete
$7.99
One set of details, written three ways — for social media, for a newspaper, and for cards and letters.
✓ Written by a person from your details
✓ Ready to use, or adjust in your own words
✓ Delivered within 24 hours
Get my three announcementsNothing is charged until we confirm · What you share is never published or reused
What usually comes next
Two neighbouring services
The obituary
An announcement says that it happened. An obituary says who they were — written to the word count your newspaper or funeral home asks for.
The words at the service
If you have also been asked to speak, a tribute draft turns your memories into a structure you can stand behind.
Before you order
Questions about death announcements
What is the difference between an announcement and an obituary?
An announcement is short and immediate — it tells people that someone has died and, usually, when the service is. An obituary comes after and tells the story of their life in a few hundred words.
What details do I need to send?
Their full name, the date, close family to be named, and service details if they are settled. Anything you would rather keep private, tell us and it stays out.
What if the funeral details are not confirmed yet?
That is the usual situation. We write the announcements so they work without the service details and leave a clean place to add them when they are known.
Why three versions rather than one?
Because a social media post, a newspaper notice and a letter need different lengths, different conventions and different amounts of private detail. One wording cannot do all three well.
Can I change them before sending?
Of course. They are yours. Most families use them as written, and some adjust a line to match how the family speaks.
When do I pay?
Not on this site. You send your request first, we check we can take it on, then email a secure payment link — usually within 20 minutes to 3 hours. No link within 3 hours means our schedule is full, and you are welcome to try again in 48 hours.
Tell people once, and properly
Send the details tonight. Have all three versions in the morning.