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In which we try not to anticipate things
I can’t help but feel slightly sickened at pre-obituaries – the endless news reports on the life and actions of famous people who are dangerously ill. It didn’t seem too bad during the slow death of George Best,* but the coverage of Ariel Sharon’s stroke has been terrible. As I’m writing Sharon is in a coma, but definitely alive; but for the past day or so every news report I’ve heard has been about how Middle-Eastern politics will change after he is gone – or, even worse, what his impact on history has been. These really are just obituary reports under another name.
(yes, I know they have a partial excuse that he’s almost certainly retiring – but even so, I still don’t think it’s right)
* or maybe it was just drowned out in my mind by the volume of post-death tributes