I love good obituaries. This article is very amusing. One of - TopicsExpress



          

I love good obituaries. This article is very amusing. One of the most stressful aspects of reporting an advance entails, when feasible, telephoning its pre-dead subject for an interview. This is one of the stranger social predicaments in human experience and, trust me, there is nothing in Emily Post to cover it. The midcentury Timesman Alden Whitman, an obituary writer famous for sitting down with his subjects in advance, favored tender circumlocutions on the order of, “We’re updating your biographical file” and “This is for possible future use.” I have used both with a fair margin of success.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:06:10 +0000

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