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I can’t find my deceased friend’s obit b/c takes $. Name: Matthew Herzog (3-19-86 to 10-14-04) Houston, Texas.?

He was a 6th generation Houstonian, and his original obituary is located at www.chron.com (or via the Houston Chronicle, which features mostly all of Houston’s deceased in their "Obituary" section, and the only problem I’m having accessing his obituary, is monetary-wise. They want me to put in my credit card number and charge me $2.95, to actually read my best friend’s obituary. I wasn’t able to make his funeral, because it was private, and none of his friends went (thanks to his sadistic parents) and I REFUSE to pay for something that ought to be FREE! Not to mention that if they charge my credit card the $2.95, it costs about that much to place a charge with the card anyway, so the total would be around $5.00 for reading an obituary of a dearly departed friend of mine, when it should be absolutely free and public (since it’s a public record) anyway. So, if anyone finds Matthew Mark Baker Herzog’s obituary, I would greatly appreciate it, and you would be putting 6 years worth of uncertainty behind me, and help me start to heal my inability to have some closure, seeing that I not only wasn’t allowed to view my friend being placed to rest at his funeral, but also never being able to read anything that was said about him in his final eulogy. He died in Houston, Texas on October 14th of 2004, he was 18 year old, and was killed by off-duty, uninformed police officers, whom he was involved in a lawsuit with, and they had been harassing him for years, ticketing him, etc.. until they finally got what they wanted, which was his death. They harassed him so badly, it started driving him crazy, making him extremely paranoid and emotionally unstable (which is exactly where I think they wanted him to be, mentally) so they could catch him in a snare (that they made) in order to cost him something as precious as his own life. And yes, they sure did, shoot him dead, after years of harassment, lawsuits, and cops following him everywhere he went (which was an everyday occurrence, and many of the times, I was with him, witnessing this crap taking place) to make his short life miserable, and they did that admirably.

So what’s your question?

Was it even worth writing all this for $2.95?

  1. M R
    April 22nd, 2011 at 18:59 | #1

    So what’s your question?

    Was it even worth writing all this for $2.95?
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  2. Designer~Wife
    April 22nd, 2011 at 19:47 | #2

    An obituary is not a public record, it is a paid ad by the family to let others know of the loss – You are not entitled to a free copy.
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    Experience

  3. Nashvegas
    April 22nd, 2011 at 20:29 | #3

    Just pay the $2.95 & print it out.
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  4. John W
    April 22nd, 2011 at 20:46 | #4

    Go to the public library and read it on microfilm. It was 6 years ago, you know the date so it’s not like you need to do a key word search. It’s reasonable that they would want to charge for Internet access to the archives but the archives is always available to the public at the library.

    It only cost that much to charge a card with the pre-paid debt cards so this tells me you’ve mismanaged your finances (along with half of America) to the point where you can’t get a real credit card. You should re-evaluate your own life decisions rather than focus attention on others. It may be that those police officers may have been bullying your friend around but it’s more likely that he was making poor life decisions in general, are you doing the same? You can’t always blame others for everything.
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