[mburbank]

Pre written obits for famous people goes back at least a few generations. My Grandfather on my Mom's side used to write 'em for the washington post, and keeping them updated used to be a whole job. Entry level writers got stuck with the 'dead file'.

And it's sad Chris Reeve died.

But death is always funny, and tragic death is funnier and tragic celebrity death is a gut buster.

Funny and sad don't have to be separate things.