{ "item_title" : "Dead on Paper", "item_author" : [" Levi Carlton "], "item_description" : "Your obituary may already be written.When a famous person dies and a flawless, two-thousand-word obituary appears within the hour, quoting people who would take days to reach, something doesn't add up. The answer is a secret most readers have never thought about: the obituary was written first. Months ago. Sometimes years. While its subject was alive, well, and completely unaware.Newsrooms call the place where they keep these waiting files the morgue. Inside it sit finished, polished accounts of the lives of hundreds of living people, kept current, labeled DO NOT PUBLISH, waiting for a single event to fill in the one blank they leave open: the date.Dead on Paper opens the door to that room. It is the true, strange, and frequently hilarious story of the advance obituary, told through the spectacular accidents that have exposed it: The tech billionaire whose seventeen-page obituary went out over the wire three years before he diedThe network that accidentally published the death notices of seven living world leaders at once, one of them described as the UK's favorite grandmotherThe radio service that buried roughly a hundred living celebrities in a single morningThe people who read their own obituaries, and what they did nextUnderneath the comedy runs something deeper: a quiet legal rule that frees the obituary to tell the truth, a question about who decides whose life is worth preparing for, and a machine now learning to write the last word no human troubled to compose.Equal parts dark comedy, hidden history, and meditation on how we mark a life, Dead on Paper will change the way you read the newspaper, and the way you think about the first draft of your own last word.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/485/9798184853222_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "9.99", "online_price" : "9.99", "our_price" : "9.99", "club_price" : "9.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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