On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:17:57 +0000, Arthur Figgis
wrote:

On 11/03/2014 16:13, Recliner wrote:

Many of those commuters are Telegraph readers. Here's its surprisingly
rapid obituary

They have the obituaries of suitably famous people ready and waiting for
years, they don't wait until someone actually croaks before writing them.

Ditto with the obituary films on television which often get re-edited
as a tribute to the ones who outrun the Grim Reaper.