Importantly, it doesn't look at all like it was a publicity thing. They just decided it was worth doing and did it; the reporter probably found out about it from the family afterward. Hard for me to be curmudgeonly about that.
Even when the newspaper contacted them, they declined to comment; that's definitely not publicity-seeking behavior. My read on it is that the family and/or the friends who were involved probably contacted the paper to say "here's some good news for you to write about".
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