Most people who have used a do-it-yourself prefix have used RIP.

Are you suggesting a thread that would be permanentized with just the notice of someone's passing as each post, plus a link to a thread where it can be discussed or funeral details added?

I always feel a responsibility to refresh an RIP thread about to fall off the page, because we do have a lot of active members who are not heere daily, and it seems sad to have only a few posts where people are taking note of a passing.

Would it also be helpful if I issued an e-mail to all Mudcatters in my address book when there is a new obituary posted? I do something similar when a prayer request appears in a thread and the person involved has OK'd my issuing it, and in my line of work as a pastor's wife I am an old hand at delivering such news. On ocasion the e-mail goes beyond the prayer chain to my whole Mudcatter address book (Spaw news, for instance.) What I generally do is make the minimal statement required to notify folks to come see the thread, and then I give the URL. (I seldom comment further unless it is a prayer request specifically for the prayer chain.) I use BCC so addresses are not spread about without people's permission.

No one I have ever contacted in this fashion has objected, and in fact there has been nothing but appreciation. So this would be a piece of cake if people would want it done.

~Susan