Some additional background--

One reason OBIT was chosen over RIP was that RIP gives too many wrong results when used as a search term, so although it was felt to be a great term to use, and many HAD been using it, it just wasn't practical as a filter-able prefix.

The relevance there of course is that being able to search up by filter would be a great aid to researchers. Not only could people learn about the facts of the situation and the person's life-- there would be a repository that could always be added to later, to read the personal stories of people who had known them, as the stories emerged in the thread.

And that brings us back to the main point that I think was the sticking point in a prior discussion of this-- AS THE STORIES EMERGED IN THE THREAD. See, it is often the sad task of someone nowadays to post promptly what little is known about someone's death, in this instant-news world. This is a simple notification, and it creates a place to hang what else becomes known or to add personal insights about the person or what occurred-- without having ten threads created, on the same death, when the news suddenly becomes broadly disseminated in the media, to inspire ten Catters to rush to the Create-a-Thread screen at once.

Whatever additional information is posted is not really the responsibility of the person who was simply kind enough to open the one thread for others to use.

~Susan