Obit written for Britney

The Times is reported to keep its obituaries up to date but I wonder whether they have written one as yet for Britney Spears.

US magazine.com is reporting that Associated Press have already produced one for the wild child.(via the Wire)

According to its entertainment editor Jessie Washington

We are not wishing it, but if Britney passed away, it’s easily one of the biggest stories in a long time,
"I think one would agree that Britney seems at risk right now," Washington adds. "Of course, we would never wish any type of misfortune on anybody and hope that we would never have to use it until 50 years from now…but if something were to happen, we would have to be prepared."

The Subject of death

A good post from the Economist correspendent site.Not a subject that gets a great deal of coverage and yet takes a fair amount of copy in the papers.

Yes what is it like to be an obituaries editor ?


Well perhaps something like this

"I DON'T know what other people’s first thoughts
may be on Monday mornings; but mine, as the jabber of my husband’s radio crawls
into my dreams, is “Has anyone died today?”
It was never so before I became
The Economist’s obituaries editor, four years ago. But death comes naturally
now. It is matter-of-fact. I keep a list, very incomplete, of those who are
creeping towards it. I notice its mark on people, not so much in wrinkles or
stooped backs but in a certain frailty and luminosity acquired by the very old
before they die. More than I used to, I note the premature browning of leaves
and grass, the erosion of statues and stones, the rotting of things. The odd
pangs and pains in my own body I now surmise to be Death knocking, or leaving a
calling card, with a promise to come back later."