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Bonus Episode: Mo Rocca on the Art of the Obituary

Significant Others

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The Evolution of the Obituary Column

I don't know if it's bad luck to invoke someone's name before it's their time to be in the obituary column. Henry Kissinger, who is still knackered for him at 98, you know, lifting weights and I mean, I think he's 98,. Still writing op-ed pieces and still mucking around in international politics. And I mean, where at this point does Jill St. John fall? Is that moving down and down and down to a lower paragraph? That's the whole thing, the evolution of the first paragraph. But the Jimmy Carter obit, he's had such a distinguished post presidency. Where does the evaluation of his actual presidency fall?

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