There's a pattern in the way media deal with these things - there's a news story, then a splurge of media coverage of all the details, then a mass of pseudo-analysis of how the media have covered it, and how people are reacting to it; and we always end up with articles like this one, about how unhealthy it all is.

And then it all happens again, and each time they go back and recycle the previous cases. And rewrite the same articles.

Actually not that much of the stuff about the Pope that I read was actually about his death at all, it was generally about his life.