RE: Obits. Certain famous people have their obits already written, even though they aen't ded yet. The Queen Mother had hers written when she was 80 something so they had to keep udating it for when she finally popped off 20 years later. These obits are stored, waiting for the day when the news finally arrives that some famous person has shuffled off this mortal coil. The obits are then quickly updated and pasted in. It saves an awful lot of time and research if the information is already there. That's why some news media have obits before others, and why it's so easy to print a whole page on the strength of one phone call.

LTS