The wife and girlfriend of a deceased New Jersey man have placed competing obituaries side-by-side in their local paper because they could not agree on how to phrase the 55-year-old's death notice.
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The notices, for Bill Black of Egg Harbor Township, appeared next to each other in the Friday edition of the Press of Atlantic City – a daily newspaper in New Jersey.
They have also been published online.
One of the notices says Mr Black is survived by a "loving wife" and son after passing away on August 2 surrounded by family.
However the second obituary makes no mention of a wife and instead says he is survived by a son, siblings and a "long-tome [sic] girlfriend".
This guy was loved so much both wife, girlfriend place obits in newspaper https://t.co/XM0rxph2eh pic.twitter.com/HjURe0dXV1— NJ.com (@njdotcom) August 5, 2016
The second obituary says Mr Black died from lung cancer "due to fibreglass exposure".
A staff member at Greenidge Funeral Homes, the business conducting Mr Black's funeral, told The Philly Voice the two notices appeared because of a disagreement over the obituary's wording.
"The wife wanted it one way, and the girlfriend wanted it another way," he said.
Mr Black's funeral will be held on Sunday.
