Bob Hopes Obit writer has been dead for two years!

[Chuckiechan]

He even out lived his obituary!

http://www.washtimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm

Dead bury dead
It's common practice for newspaper obituaries of the famous to be written months if not years in advance of the subject actually dying.
"That makes good deadline sense, but it can lead to some macabre situations," observes the Libertarian journal Reason, which points to the front page of yesterday's New York Times, where the obit for Bob Hope carries the byline of the paper's long-deceased film critic, Vincent Canby.
"Canby died three years ago," the journal notes.

[julietsrose]

That's crazy. I've heard of the obits getting into the wrong hands and people mistakingly thinking public figures were dead, but never of the obit. writer outliving his subject.