[WKB]

It's irritating to find out too late through an obit that someone I thought was dead was actually still alive.

Never be in doubt again.
Dead or Alive

[Christopher Lincoln]

An old Encyclopaedia Britannica article about Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) includes this: "In 1907 she was awarded the Order of Merit. The announcement came as a surprise; most people thought she had died half a century before."