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Coronavirus deaths in black and white

Julio Ricardo Varela goes through some of the 11 pages of death notices in today's Globe.

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In the time leading up to Covid-19, the Sunday Globe death notices has been getting bigger and bigger. I’d say 6 pages, maybe 7, was the norm.

Just putting a perspective on things. Also, he left out the full page ad on page A3. That was a heck of a remembrance of John T Callahan Jr.

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Just heartbreaking....

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is because each obituary is now like a column. They used to be a paragraph each.

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All the obits with a picture are paid for by the family. The more you write, the more it costs. I'm not complaining, it's one of the new sources of advertising that hasn't dried up during this crisis.

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Looking at the photographs, one might think it was only white.

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They seem to save them all for Sunday. The rest of the week there's barely a page.

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And considering the font size they use, less death notices than in the 1970s.

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