Long-silent mistresses, disgruntled former employees, estranged family members — Katie Falzone has seen them all.
They turn to the online guest books at the obituary Web site where she works, Legacy.com, to convey unflattering thoughts about the recently departed.
It is Ms. Falzone’s job to stop them.
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Legacy, which is now eight years old, carries a death notice or obituary for virtually all the roughly 2.4 million people who die each year, but few foresaw how nasty some of the postings to its guest books would be.
Some of the snubs are blunt. “Everyone gets their due,” a former client writes of an embezzling accountant. Or, “I sincerely hope the Lord has more mercy on him than he had on me during my years reporting to him at the Welfare Department.”
Others are subtler: “She never took the time to meet me, but I understand she was a wonderful grandmother to her other grandchildren.”
“Reading the obit, he sounds like he was a great father,” says another, which is signed, “His son Peter.”
I’d never heard of this site before. They even had an obit and a guestbook for Yankee pitcher Corey Lidle.
A fascinating article and a fascinating site.
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