From: alain245@videotron.ca   
      
   On Mar/29/2021 at 20:49, David Spain wrote :   
   > On 3/29/2021 12:18 PM, Snidely wrote:   
   >> /dps   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> "First thing in the morning, before I have coffee, I read the obits,   
   >> If I'm not in it, I'll have breakfast." -- Carl Reiner, to CBS News in   
   >> 2015.   
   >   
   > Apropos of this (and nothing else):   
   > A few decades back I used to have my clock radio set to a local AM   
   > station that was local in every sense of the word. Not even a network   
   > affiliated station. Anyway, sometime between the hours of 7:00am and   
   > 7:30am they would broadcast the local town obituaries. It occurred to me   
   > one morning (as do all my best ideas, usually while I'm in the shower)   
   > that if I knew of anyone who was as demented as I was to wake up to this   
   > station, to phone in a fake obit for them... Something that would   
   > definitely make your morning memorable....   
      
   I'm not sure if a respectable radio station would take an obit from a   
   random Joe. The one time I took care of such things, it was the funeral   
   home that sent the obit to the local newspapers. And the funeral home   
   wanted a body to start doing business, or more precisely, some paper   
   work telling them where they could go pickup the body and also showing   
   that I had some legal authority over that body. They told me that they   
   could not legally do much before they had that paper. The process might   
   be different in other jurisdiction.   
      
      
   Alain Fournier   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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