News From Beyond The Grave

They had copy ready to go. I prefer the Mark Twain variant: reported dead while still very much alive:

Hollywood doyenne Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at the age of 79. Mel Gussow, the writer of Taylor's swiftly published New York Times obituary, died of cancer in 2005 at the age of 71, Nick Greene over at The Village Voice points out.