# Obituraries in SUV Rear Windows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293 "2011-03-11T13:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/1 "2011-03-11T13:01:50Z")
I have been seeing more and more of these-people are putting their loved one’s obits on the rear windows…with a portrait of the deceased. When did this start? Kinda strange…but I suppose its a good way to advertised the deceased. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/2 "2011-03-11T17:49:17Z")
I rarely saw this back in Michigan, but it is HUGE here in Arizona, especially with Hispanic families. I think it’s kind of tacky, but it’s not really any of my business what people do with their vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/3 "2011-03-11T18:02:44Z")
Very thoughtful of them to give me something to read while I drive behind them, because God knows I can’t see the ROAD or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/4 "2011-03-11T18:15:24Z")
Extremely popular here in Georgia as well, no rhyme or reason I can see for it. They’re not all young people or veterans or old people or a single ethnicity represented, but I concur that it’s not my business what nonsense people put on their vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/5 "2011-03-11T18:17:29Z")
I told my friends that I will haunt the shit out of them if they eulogize me on any of the following: [ul] [li]Shitty mall tshirts[/li][li]Their car windows[/li][li]Their Facebook profiles.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/6 "2011-03-11T18:24:22Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I told my friends that I will haunt the shit out of them if they eulogize me on any of the following: > > [ul] > [li]Shitty mall tshirts[/li][li]Their car windows[/li][li]Their Facebook profiles.[/li][/ul] But we can still put a teddy bear on a stick on the side of the road w/ fake flowers and Mylar balloons from the Dollar Tree, right?? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/7 "2011-03-11T18:25:27Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > But we can still put a teddy bear on a stick on the side of the road w/ fake flowers and Mylar balloons from the Dollar Tree, right?? Only if that’s where I road raged and flipped my car over, otherwise it would just be tacky. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/8 "2011-03-11T18:29:38Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Only if that’s where I road raged and flipped my car over, otherwise it would just be tacky. **‘Here’s where DiosaBellissima road raged and flipped her car over’** is a lot to fit on a cross made of two hot-glued paint stirrers inscribed w/ a Sharpie. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/9 "2011-03-11T18:45:11Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > **‘Here’s where DiosaBellissima road raged and flipped her car over’** is a lot to fit on a cross made of two hot-glued paint stirrers inscribed w/ a Sharpie. amateurs. In my city somebody cemented a steel cross in the ground next to a bridge. The city came along the next day and cut it down. I’d like to add tattoos to the list of memorial canvases. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/10 "2011-03-11T18:58:51Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > **‘Here’s where DiosaBellissima road raged and flipped her car over’** is a lot to fit on a cross made of two hot-glued paint stirrers inscribed w/ a Sharpie. Excuse me: there better be glitter. I want that text in glitter or no deal. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/11 "2011-03-11T19:01:37Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I told my friends that I will haunt the shit out of them if they eulogize me on any of the following: > > [ul] > [li]Shitty mall tshirts[/li][li]Their car windows[/li][li]Their Facebook profiles.[/li][/ul] I told my friends and loved ones the same thing, that would haunt them until their dying days if they eulogize me with one of those car window displays. Of course I told them this by posting a photo of a vehicle with one of the stickers to my FaceBook page. 😃 Seriously, I’d haunt them until they committed suicide… ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/12 "2011-03-11T19:27:01Z")
Maybe it’s like those roadside memorials and those are the vehicles that killed the person? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/13 "2011-03-11T19:49:31Z")
I’ve only seen it two or three times here in SW FLA. All instances were latino names. I, too, find it tacky that a person has to wear their grief on their sleeve, so to speak. I can’t decide what I’d like done for my roadside memorial. A few options: 1. Put 20-30 little cheap-o crosses all clustered around a big area of burned grass, each one with a pic of a little kid taped to it. 2. Keep the burned area, but put a crushed, torched wheel chair in the middle with a big, beglittered cross reading, “Your walkin in heven with Jeesus.” 3. A realistic skull nailed to a plank under a sign reading, “SNITCH.” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/14 "2011-03-11T20:13:46Z")
I’ve never seen full obits with photos in southern MD, but I have seen the \*In Memory Of \*with names and dates on back windows. To me, it’s as tacky as roadside memorials, but whatever. As long as it’s not on my car or in my yard, I’m good. As a sick aside - my dad died when he and mom were visiting a friend - he had a heart attack while showering and was gone that fast. I always had this warped urge to put a memorial in the friend’s bathroom. I’m so ashamed of myself, but Dad would have laughed… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/15 "2011-03-11T20:38:47Z")
“No, that wasn’t a vial of pumice powder, dear…” ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/16 "2011-03-12T01:08:33Z")
I should make up a bunch of fake ones, then put them on random people’s cars. \>:) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/17 "2011-03-12T01:17:50Z")
I’m reminded of the [Giant Russian Mafia Tombstones](http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2007/02/27/russian-mafia-grave-tombs/). ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/18 "2011-03-12T01:23:42Z")
Poll: Sky-written eulogies are tacky or awesome? ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/19 "2011-03-12T01:34:59Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Poll: Sky-written eulogies are tacky or awesome? Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/20 "2011-03-12T01:53:41Z")
Wow, SUV stickers and Russian MAfia headstones. These are all new to me, and I am equally skeeved by all. The guy with his hand in the pocket of his jacket looking like he’s got a gun on us and is just about to waste us is kinda cool though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293.md?page=2)