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Obituaries are prematurely published all the time. I'm surprised April's Fools aren't published early more often.
> Obituaries are prematurely published all the time Unless you're describing Death Note I'm not sure what you mean by this.
I once worked on the same floor as an online magazine publishing group. Their niche included reporting on famous figures within a specific domain. In order to be able to react to news of a famous figure's death, they had pre-written memorial articles for any of these figures whose age seemed to suggest their time was near. Unfortunately, a bug in the CMS and/or a fat finger occasionally allowed one of these pre-prepared obituaries to go live while the famous person was still alive.
Another interesting thing I observed: since that magazine was also owned by the central organization in their domain, they sometimes had to take down interesting articles (e.g. about this organization's holdings or business dealings) after receiving a phone call from somebody important.