[farfromhome]

Not to mention this is standard procedure. As I understand, networks and newspapers often write obits in advance. Sometimes someone gets lazy and the obit is printed prehumously :)

[GoLightly]

You're right. Someone had theirs accidently released a couple of years ago, though for the life of me, I can't remember whos it was.

[TomGuy]

Sometimes someone gets lazy and the obit is printed prehumously :)

IIRC, when Bob Hope died, Phyllis Diller's obit was run on CNN. She laughed about it--in a 'live' interview on another news channel.

[Polybius]

As I understand, networks and newspapers often write obits in advance. Sometimes someone gets lazy and the obit is printed prehumously :)

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."............ Cable sent by Mark Twain from London to the press in the United States after his obituary had been mistakenly published.

[RightWingAtheist]

There was even an instance once where the NYT printed an obituary written by someone who had died long before the subject had. The NYT's obituary for Bob Hope was the late great film critic Vincent Canby, who had passed away three years earlier.