2745: Obituary Editor - Revision history

FaviFake: /* Explanation */

2025-07-28T10:04:22Z

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162.158.216.185: /* Explanation / You have obituries of people who (in the obituary, at least) are not* celebrated. Marking or (perhaps) commemorating their passing is still done because they were (in)famous in their lifetime, and should be remembered non-celebratorily.

2025-05-21T12:46:43Z

‎Explanation: You have obituries of people who (in the obituary, at least) are *not* celebrated. Marking or (perhaps) commemorating their passing is still done because they were (in)famous in their lifetime, and should be remembered non-celebratorily.

172.68.242.61: /* Explanation */

2025-05-21T09:16:36Z

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2024-09-19T13:10:01Z

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Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ General cleanup

2024-01-09T03:05:51Z

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Xurkitree10: /* Transcript */

2023-04-25T05:21:58Z

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172.71.242.87: /* Transcript */ If "to the" is too much verbosity, "to" is also unnecessary.

2023-04-05T05:19:13Z

‎Transcript: If "to the" is too much verbosity, "to" is also unnecessary.

162.158.187.18: /* Transcript */

2023-04-05T02:12:18Z

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Xurkitree10: /* Explanation */

2023-03-29T17:56:03Z

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N0lqu at 15:34, 8 March 2023

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 ==Explanation==
-An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, recounting their life. (It is distinct from a ''death notice,'' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)
+An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, recounting their life. (It is distinct from a ''death notice,'' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.) Apparently, the editor of this newspaper's obituary section has just died, and they have pre-written their own obituary. This is often done for famous people, to speed the process of writing and fact-checking, but it is unusual for a not-so-famous person like this editor. In their obituary, they somewhat vainly describe themselves as cool, attractive, and universally beloved. The following sentence reveals that the editor had set up a system, perhaps based on a {{w|Dead man's switch}}, to automatically post ("auto-post") their own obituary.
 Obituaries often note that the deceased is survived by some close family, such as parents, a spouse, and children. This editor notes that they have been survived by 8 billion people, or the current population of the entire Earth, which is true because almost all of them are still alive and the editor isn't. However, the editor combines the two senses of what it means to survive another person, imagining that each of those 8 billion people would suffer the same heartbreak as close family generally do.

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 ==Explanation==
-An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, celebrating their life. (It is distinct from a ''death notice,'' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)
+An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, recounting their life. (It is distinct from a ''death notice,'' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)
 Apparently, the editor of this newspaper's obituary section has just died, and they have pre-written their own obituary. This is often done for famous people, to speed the process of writing and fact-checking, but it is unusual for a not-so-famous person like this editor. In their obituary, they somewhat vainly describe themselves as cool, attractive, and universally beloved.

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 ==Explanation==
-An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, celebrating their life. (It is distinct from a '''death notice,''' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)
+An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, celebrating their life. (It is distinct from a ''death notice,'' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)
 Apparently, the editor of this newspaper's obituary section has just died, and they have pre-written their own obituary. This is often done for famous people, to speed the process of writing and fact-checking, but it is unusual for a not-so-famous person like this editor. In their obituary, they somewhat vainly describe themselves as cool, attractive, and universally beloved.

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 Obituaries often note that the deceased is survived by some close family, such as parents, a spouse, and children. This editor notes that they have been survived by 8 billion people, or the current population of the entire Earth, which is true because almost all of them are still alive and the editor isn't. However, the editor combines the two senses of what it means to survive another person, imagining that each of those 8 billion people would suffer the same heartbreak as close family generally do.
-The title text references a common trope in culture, in which a person challenge Death, often personified as the {{w|Grim Reaper}}, to a game of skill such as {{tvtropes|ChessWithDeath|chess}}. The obituary editor claims that they have challenged Death to a series of games of skill and defeated Death in all of them. This victory has been so absolute that no person will ever die again, and therefore no more obituaries will ever be required. As a result, this editor's obituary will be the last one ever published, making it even more noteworthy.
+The title text references a common trope in culture, in which a person challenges Death, often personified as the {{w|Grim Reaper}}, to a game of skill such as {{tvtropes|ChessWithDeath|chess}}. The obituary editor claims that they have challenged Death to a series of games of skill and defeated Death in all of them. This victory has been so absolute that no person will ever die again, and therefore no more obituaries will ever be required. As a result, this editor's obituary will be the last one ever published, making it even more noteworthy.
 Randall has referenced this trope in [[393: Ultimate Game]], as a tribute to Gary Gygax, the inventor of ''Dungeons and Dragons''.

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 An {{w|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, celebrating their life. (It is distinct from a '''death notice,''' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)
-Apparently, the editor of this newspaper's obituary section has just died. However, instead of somebody writing their obituary after the fact, as is conventionally done, the editor has seemingly taken matters into their own hands and written their own obituary. They (somewhat vainly) describe themselves as cool, attractive, and universally beloved, a dubious claim at best. The following sentence reveals that the editor had pre-arranged the scheduled release of this obituary, after their death, probably {{w|Dead man's switch|entirely automatically}}. Obituaries are often pre-written for famous people, ahead of the actual need arising, as this (not-so-famous) person has done for themself. Though this is generally to avoid needing to rush the writing of every biography, including carefully ensuring it is accurately written and sufficiently complete, leaving only minor circumstantial updates and details to be inserted and checked as and when events lead up to its actual publication.
+Apparently, the editor of this newspaper's obituary section has just died, and they have pre-written their own obituary. This is often done for famous people, to speed the process of writing and fact-checking, but it is unusual for a not-so-famous person like this editor. In their obituary, they somewhat vainly describe themselves as cool, attractive, and universally beloved.
-Rather than the names of some close family (usually parents, a spouse, and children), the editor is allegedly survived by 8 billion people, or the current population of the entire Earth, who further are all heartbroken by the loss. All public spaces will now be reserved for a memorial service of the editor every single day (or, at least, the editor hopes they will be). Given that the entire population of earth is unlikely to care about one obituaries editor at a newspaper,{{citation needed}} the late editor is most likely exaggerating the effect which their death will have.
+The following sentence reveals that the editor had set up a system, perhaps based on a {{w|Dead man's switch}}, to automatically post ("auto-post") their own obituary.
-The title text references a common trope in culture, in which a person who has just died decides to challenge Death, or the {{w|Grim Reaper}}, to a game of skill ({{tvtropes|ChessWithDeath|usually chess}}). Apparently, it is (possibly prematurely) claimed by the editor that they have challenged death to a series of games of skill (probably most or all variations of the trope, including chess), and defeated Death in all of them. Rather than gaining themselves a "second chance at life," however, as is usually the reward promised by Death for the dead person's victory, the editor's victory over Death has been so absolute that Death itself has been nullified for all of humanity. Hence no more obituaries will ever be required, as every human currently alive (and presumably future ones) will now live forever. Of course, if this did actually occur, then the entire population of earth would not be unlikely to care about the editor, because even if the editor's work at the newspaper wasn't significant to them, the editor's role in preventing their deaths would be.  Randall has referenced this trope in [[393: Ultimate Game]], as a tribute to Gary Gygax, the inventor of ''Dungeons and Dragons''.
+Obituaries often note that the deceased is survived by some close family, such as parents, a spouse, and children. This editor notes that they have been survived by 8 billion people, or the current population of the entire Earth, which is true because almost all of them are still alive and the editor isn't. However, the editor combines the two senses of what it means to survive another person, imagining that each of those 8 billion people would suffer the same heartbreak as close family generally do.
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	An {{w\|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, celebrating their life. (It is distinct from a '''death notice,''' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)		An {{w\|obituary}} is an article in a newspaper about a person who has recently passed away, celebrating their life. (It is distinct from a '''death notice,''' which is a paragraph, often short, usually paid, describing a person who has recently passed away. They usually offer a few words of praise and a list of surviving relatives, as well as a scheduled time for memorial services.)

2745: Obituary Editor - Revision history

FaviFake: /* Explanation */

162.158.216.185: /* Explanation */ You have obituries of people who (in the obituary, at least) are *not* celebrated. Marking or (perhaps) commemorating their passing is still done because they were (in)famous in their lifetime, and should be remembered non-celebratorily.

172.68.242.61: /* Explanation */

172.68.205.179: /* Explanation */

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ General cleanup

Xurkitree10: /* Transcript */

172.71.242.87: /* Transcript */ If "to the" is too much verbosity, "to" is also unnecessary.

162.158.187.18: /* Transcript */

Xurkitree10: /* Explanation */

N0lqu at 15:34, 8 March 2023

162.158.216.185: /* Explanation / You have obituries of people who (in the obituary, at least) are not* celebrated. Marking or (perhaps) commemorating their passing is still done because they were (in)famous in their lifetime, and should be remembered non-celebratorily.