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I'm sure you realize that the obits for famous folks are written years in advance and updated until the person passes....In order to judge the Times does the obits better than any other paper (not denying as I can not qualify any of them) you'd have to read other papers... >
>I'm certainly not as famous as Arthur Penn, but my obit has already been written. :)
I think mine is too - pending the lines " in his prime at 102 " or " shot
in flagrante delicto by the father of the 18 year old twins ... "
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.