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Try not to stress if it isn’t perfect. There might be a lot of information that you’d like to include in the obituary, or conversely you might not have enough. Typically an obituary can be anywhere from 50 to 500 words, giving you more freedom to choose how much you’d like to write. Once you’ve written the obituary, you might like to share it with close family members before publishing it in a local newspaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">To give you an idea, here is an example of an obituary:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Thomas “Tom” Howard was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend. After a short illness, he passed away suddenly on August 21, 2021 at the age of 78 in his hometown. He was born to John and Jane Howard on July 13, 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales. After he graduated from high school, Tom started studying at the University of Sydney where he met his wife, Ruth Howard. Together they travelled around Australia before settling down and having two children: Douglas and Elizabeth. \u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Tom was an active member of the Parramatta community, working as a librarian at the city library. He often spent his free time driving his children and their classmates to after-school activities, enthusiastically cheering from the sidelines with a smile that rarely left his face. 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