e/List of premature obituaries

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has gloss	eng: A premature obituary is an obituary published whose subject is not actually deceased. Such situations have various causes, such as hoaxes or mix-ups over names, and usually produce great embarrassment or sometimes more dramatic consequences. Examples range from arms manufacturer Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a merchant of death may have caused him to create the Nobel Prize, to black nationalist Marcus Garvey, whose actual death was apparently caused by reading his own obituary.
lexicalization	eng: List of premature obituaries
instance of	(noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently eulogium, eulogy

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