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Lived a Full Life
Obituaries say "she lived a full life" and stop there. Each week two hosts take one ordinary person, like a school-bus driver, a switchboard operator or a small-town hairdresser, read their short obituary aloud, then dig through newspaper archives, yearbooks, oral histories and family memories to find out exactly how full that life was. Expect warmth, surprises and real laughs, and one detail even the family never knew. Every claim checked using FactUnion's fact-checking process; every source is in the episode notes.
Made by WovenPod. Hosted by Rosa and Walt, performed by synthetic voices. Sources are in every episode's notes.
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Five Lines, Fifty-Five Dollars
The printed obituary is now a five-line ad you pay for by the line, and the surprise is that most ordinary people never had their full story in the paper in the first place.
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Occupation: Homemaker
Why a woman's paid working life so often drops out of her obituary, who has held the pen over the years, and the one person nobody thought to ask.
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