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This reads like a pre-prepared obituary. No additional information regarding his death.
by dhbanes 9y ago
This reads like a pre-prepared obituary. No additional information regarding his death.
- pmoriarty 9y agoPre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written. Newspapers keep such pre-prepared obituaries of famous people on-hand so that they can publish them instantly if that person happens to die. Any newspapers who don't do this will lose the all-important race for publication to newspapers that do.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoAnd in celebrating someone’s life, the specific details of their death aren’t so important anyways.
- timb07 9y agoAnd because obituaries are pre-prepared, they're sometimes mistakenly pre-published.
- awad 9y agoOn at least one occasion that I can recall, an obituary for Steve Jobs was published prematurely. As you can imagine, this caused a minor panic before retraction.
- andyjohnson0 9y ago> Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written They are often written many years in advance. As an example, the Guardian's obituary for Billy Graham [1] was published ten years after its writer died. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-o...
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