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Article: Obituaries --the long and the short of them
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- February 8, 2009
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IT'S probably not known when the
first obituary was published, but the
shortest death notice in history may
have been written in Winnipeg.
All it said, or was supposed to have
said, was: VIC DIED.
Funeral director Neil Bardal said
Vic was a local embalmer who told him
before he died 25
years ago that he
wanted his obituary
to be just those
two words and not
a centimetre longer.
"He went on the
assumption that
those who knew
him would know
all they needed
to know with just
those two words. He felt quite strongly
about it."
Bardal said he believes Vic got his
wish, but the passage of time has a way
of playing tricks on the mind and he
wasn't quite sure anymore if the newspapers
of the day ...